Species

Hornwort

Mosses and Liverworts

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General Reference

Nature Atlas. "Hornwort." Accessed September 8, 2026. https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/species/hornwort.

APA Style

Nature Atlas. (n.d.). Hornwort. Retrieved September 8, 2026, from https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/species/hornwort

BibTeX

@misc{natureatlas-hornwort,
  author = {Nature Atlas},
  title = {Hornwort},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/species/hornwort},
  note = {Accessed September 8, 2026}
}

Hornworts are a group of non-vascular plants constituting the division Anthocerotophyta, named for the elongated horn-like structure that is their sporophyte. Like mosses and liverworts, hornworts have a life cycle dominated by the gametophyte stage, the flattened green plant body in which cells carry only a single set of genetic information.

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