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Nonvascular Plants: Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The gametophore of leafy liverworts resembles that of moss, thin leaves on a slender stem; however liverworts leaves typically have two rounded lobes with ne midrib and no conducting tissue. where as moss leaves are pointed and normally have a midrib
      - Thallose liverworts show less resemblance to mosses, they are not leafy at all but rather flat and ribbon like or hearts shaped and bilaterally symmetrical. The body is somewhat called a thallus
      - A thallus is a body without roots, stems, and leaves.
  - - - Seta is the stalk of the capsule, located between the foot and the sporangium
      - Foot is the portion of the sporophyte that is embedded within the gametophyte
      - The Calyptra is a small sheth of cells, derived from the archegonium, which covers the top of the capsules