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Qjure
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Qjurious
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Anthocerotophyta
English: Hornworts.
Genera : 14; 100 species.
Region: worldwide.
Habitat: damp or humid regions; in winter on fields or at ditch borders, they look like a small grass or like a fresh horsetail.
Introduction
Hornworts are the smallest Class in Bryophya.
Plant theory
Hornworts are tentatively place in the first Class of the Hydrogen series, as it is the smallest. But there is no homeopathic information about them so far.
Botany
Hornworts have an elongated horn-like structure, the sporophyte; flattened, green plant body; helical thickenings, twist and thereby help to disperse the spores; Spores: relatively large, between 30 and 80 µm in diameter; polar, usually with a distinctive Y-shaped tri-radiate ridge on the proximal surface and with a distal surface ornamented with bumps or spines.
Members
• Anthocerotidae: Anthocerotales; Anthocerotaceae: Anthoceros, Folioceros, Sphaerosporoceros.
• Dendrocerotidae: Dendrocerotales: Dendrocerotaceae: Dendroceros, Megaceros, Nothoceros, Phaeomegaceros.
• Dendrocerotidae: Phymatocerotales: Phymatocerotaceae: Phymatoceros: Phymatoceros phymatodes.
• Leiosporocerotidae: Leiosporocerotales: Leiosporocerotaceae: Leiosporoceros: Leiosporoceros dussii.
• Notothyladaceae: Hattorioceros, Mesoceros, Notothylas, Paraphymatoceros, Phaeoceros.