Question

Enumerate the salient features of bryophytes.

Answer 1

• Bryophytes are also called amphibians of the plant kingdom because these plants can live in soil but are dependent on water for sexual reproduction.
  
• They play an important role in plant succession- primary succession
• They lack true roots, stem or leaves.
• They are also of economic importance - species of Sphagnum provides peat that have long been used as fuel and as a packing material because of their capacity to hold water.
• They are photosynthetic but non- vascular plants.
• Mosses and liverworts are examples.