| Liverworts, hornworts, mosses, clubmosses, resurrection plants, quillworts, horsetails, ferns, cycads, ginkgos, conifers, and flowering plants are all plants. |
| Other studies suggest a monophyletic group comprising liverworts and mosses, with hornworts being sister to vascular plants. |
| Some of these plants are thalloid much like early liverworts, hornworts and mosses might have been. |
| As in liverworts and hornworts, the haploid gametophyte generation is the dominant phase of the life cycle. |
| Current analyses include only one sample per group from mosses, liverworts, and hornworts and lack a major lineage of land plants, lycophytes. |
| Both gametangia form from a stereotyped series of divisions of a terminal apical cell, unlike the gametangia of liverworts and hornworts. |
