different between gametophyte vs hornwort

English

From gameto- +? -phyte (“plant”)

gametophyte (plural gametophytes)

(botany) A plant (or the haploid phase in its life cycle) which produces gametes by mitosis in order to produce a zygote.
- 2018, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian, 25 May:
  In liverworts like Marchantia, which lives in most soggy places worldwide, the gametophyte is the dominant phase – the thing you would think of as the plant.

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

hornwort (plural hornworts)

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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