English > Musci: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | true mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales. |
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| Synonyms | Bryopsida, class Bryopsida, class Musci |
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| Member of | Bryophyta, division Bryophyta | A division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots and having little or no organized vascular tissue and showing alternation of generations between gamete-bearing forms and spore-bearing forms |
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| Members | Andreaeales, order Andreaeales | Comprises a single genus |
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| Bryales, order Bryales | category used in some classification systems for mosses having the spore case separated from the capsule wall by a hollow intercellular space |
| Dicranales, order Dicranales | widely distributed order of mosses with erect gametophores and sporophytes at the tips of stems |
| Eubryales, order Eubryales | mosses with perennial erect gametophores and stems with rows of leaves and drooping capsules |
| Sphagnales, order Sphagnales | coextensive with the genus Sphagnum |
| Broader | class | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders |
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| Spanish | briópsidos, Musci |
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| Catalan | briòpsids, Bryopsida, muscínies |
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