Bryophytes are a group of land plants, sometimes treated as a taxonomic division referred to as Bryophyta sensu lato, that contains three groups of non-vascular land plants: the liverworts, hornworts,
An example of moss (Bryophyta) on the forest floor in Broken Bow, Oklahoma
Hornworts (Anthocerophyta) were once believed to be the closest living relatives of the vascular plants.
A gametophyte is one of the two alternating multicellular phases in the life cycles of plants. It is a haploid multicellular organism that develops from a haploid spore, that has one set of chromosome
Pine gametophyte (outside) surrounding the embryo (inside)