Mossy plants, or Mosses, and These mosses, or Bryophytes (lat. Bryophyta), Department of higher plants, numbering about 10 thousand species, organized in about 700 genera and families 110-120[1] (the total of bryophytes, including mosses and Hepatic mosses Anthocerotophyta is approximately 20,000 species[2]). As a rule, these are small plants, the length of which only occasionally exceeds 50 mm; the exception is water mosses, some of which have a length of more than half a meter, and epiphytes, which can be even longer. Mossy plants, like other Bryophytes differ from other higher plants that their life cycle, the haploid gametophyte dominates the diploid sporophyte.