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The land plants (sub-division Embryophytina) have many characteristics which are apparently adaptations to terrestrial life. At one time, the bryophytes were separated from the other land plants because of the absence of a lignified water-conducting tissue. However, the importance of this distinction has diminished in recent years, as will be discussed below. It is now recognized that the bryophytes (especially the mosses) have all the distinctive attributes of other land plants.
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Doyle, W.T. (1970). Bryophytes. In: Nonseed Plants: Form and Function. Fundamentals of Botany Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00412-6_12
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