Directory of Anthocerotophyta Resources

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The Anthocerotophyta or Anthocerophyta are more commonly known as the hornworts. These are thought to be one of the oldest extant groups of land plants. Hornworts consist of a flattened thallus with the gametangia produced along the midline of the thallus, each thallus able to produce several sporophytes.

Subcategories

• Anthocerotales
• Dendrocerotaceae
• Foliocerotales

Resources in This Category

• Anthocerotophyta

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/plants/anthocerotophyta.html
  The hornworts are an unusual group of plants of which many people are unaware and are so named because of their curious reproductive structures.

• Anthocerotophyta

  http://tolweb.org/Anthocerotophyta/20597
  Phylogenetic tree for the Hornworts from the Tree of Life Web Project and a photograph of a species of Phaeoceros.

• Phylum Anthocerotophyta

  http://bryophytes.plant.siu.edu/anthocerotophyta.html
  Provides a classification of the hornworts at the rank of genus and above.

• Return of the Hornworts

  http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/bbs/Learning/hornworts.htm
  Article by Anna Levin describing how a walk across a muddy field inspired the bryologist David Long to consider how changing agricultural practices were affecting Bryophytes on arable land.

• The Hidden Forest: Hornworts

  http://www.hiddenforest.co.nz/bryophytes/hornworts/
  An introduction to the Anthocerotopsida outlining their unique features and methods of reproduction with several photographs of Anthoceros species.

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