hornwort

Etymology

From horn + wort (“plant”), from the fact that the spores are produced in slender horn-shaped structures.

noun

  1. A bryophyte with a leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage of the life cycle and a sporophyte stage shaped like a horn.

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