Are mosses vascular plants or non vascular plants and give reasons
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mosses are non-vascular plants in the land plant division Bryophyta. They are small (a few centimeters tall) herbaceous (non-woody) plants that absorb water and nutrients mainly through their leaves and harvest carbon dioxide and sunlight to create food by photosynthesis.
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Mosses are non vascular plants
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- Moss, (division Bryophyta), any of at least 12,000 species of small non vascular spore-bearing land plants. Mosses are distributed throughout the world except in salt water and are commonly found in moist shady locations. They are best known for those species that carpet woodland and forest floors. Ecologically, mosses break down exposed substrate, releasing nutrients for the use of more complex plants that succeed them. They also aid in soil erosion control by providing surface cover and absorbing water, and they are important in the nutrient and water economy of some vegetation types. Economically important species are those in the genus Sphagnum that form peat.
- Mosses existed as early as the Permian Period (298.9 million to 252.2 million years ago), and more than 100 species have been identified from fossils of the Paleogene and Neogene periods (66 million to 2.6 million years ago). Muscites, Protosphagnum, Palaeohypnum, and other fossil mosses are similar in structure to modern genera. Extant species include the valvate mosses (subclass Andreaeidae) and peat mosses (subclass Sphagnidae). The large subclass Bryidae constitutes most species of mosses, but the subclass Polytrichidae also has some important members. Other, smaller subclasses are represented by only a few species.
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