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.
IntroductionHornworts are the smallest Class in Bryophya.
Plant theoryHornworts 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.
BotanyHornworts 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.