Anthocerotopsida
Hornworts are a group of non-vascular plants constituting the division Anthocerotophyta. The common name refers to the elongated horn-like structure, which is the sporophyte. As in mosses and liverworts, the flattened, green plant body of a hornwort is the gametophyte plant.
3 branches of this class, most-observed first
Notothyladidae
subclassNotothyladidae
Anthocerotidae
subclassAnthocerotidae
Dendrocerotidae
subclassDendrocerotidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 56328.