Examples of bryophyte in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Surprisingly, the team identified 75 different species of bryophytes, including 10 types of liverworts, according to a press release. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 Nov. 2019 Researchers from the University of Glasgow and the University of Innsbruck recovered at least 75 species of bryophytes, non-vascular plants such as mosses and liverworts, that had been preserved in ice with Otzi. — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 31 Oct. 2019 Around 70 percent of the bryophyte species found in and around Ötzi's high-altitude remains do not grow in the nival zone, the highest region of alpine vegetation which starts around 9,850 feet in this part of the Alps. — Megan Gannon, National Geographic, 30 Oct. 2019 Anthocerotae Anthocerotae, also known as hornworts, are the third type of bryophyte. — Kevin Espiritu For Partselect.com, Good Housekeeping, 29 Aug. 2017 Oishi said humid cities where moss thrives could benefit most from using bryophytes – a collective term for mosses, hornworts and liverworts – as bioindicators, adding moss could be monitored in its natural environment or cultivated for analysis. — Sophie Hares, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2017

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