Question

What are the peculiar features of a moss?

Answer 1

Mosses are small flowerless plants that typically grow in dense green.
They have the mild antibacterial properties.
These helps in improving the soil.
It also helps in method of converting it into a manure.

Answer 2

Features of Mosses:

• They are included in class Bryopsida

• They belong to Division Bryophyta

• Roots are absent in these plants

• They are sciophytes. They prefer to grow in shady places.

• The plant body of Mosses is made up of rhizoids, stem like and leaf like structures.

• Rhizoids are unicellular and branched structures

• Their filamentous body is called protonema

• Plant body of Mosses are gamatophyte i.e. haploid

• The sporophytes of mosses are semi-parasite.

• The sporophyte of moss is photosynthetic.

• Capsule of moss has peristomial teeth for release of spores.

• Fertilisation takes place by zoidogamy.

• They are gregarian in nature.

Examples:- Funaria, Polytrichum, Sphagnum.