Bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts) have a dominant gametophyte stage on which the adult sporophyte is parasitic, the embryo of the sporophyte having developed within the female sex organ or archegonium, and in its early development is therefore nurtured by the gametophyte.
Bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts) have a dominant gametophyte stage on which the adult sporophyte is parasitic. The embryo of the sporophyte develop from the zygote within the female sex organ or archegonium, and in its early development is therefore nurtured by the gametophyte.