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    Economic and Medicinal

    Importance of
    Bryophytes
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    Bryophytes
    Introduction
    • Bryophytes are small, non-vascular plants that grow in shady, damp regions.
    • They are classified into three classes – Class Hepaticopsida (Liverworts), Class
    Anthocerotopsida (Hornworts) and Class Bryopsida (Mosses).
    • They show alteration of generation between the gametophyte which produces
    the sex organs and the sporophyte, which produces the spores.
    • They don’t produce flowers and seeds, and instead reproduce through spores.
    Economic Importance
    • Sphagnum plants decompose and carbonise under pressure forming peat. Peat
    is a dark brown coloured spongy substance that has many other uses :
    • Rich in carbon.
    • Improves soil texture.
    • Used in surgical dressings.
    • Used for packing material.
    • Preparation of ethyl alcohol.
    • Bryophytes are used as food source for animals useful to humans.

    • Mosses prevent soil erosion.

    • Mosses help in bog succession.

    • Bryophytes act as pollution indicators.


    Medicinal Importance
    • Liverworts like Marchantia polymorpha is used to cure pulmonary tuberculosis
    and afflictions of liver.
    • A decoction of dried Sphagnum is used to treat diseases of eye and acute haemorrhage.
    • A by-product of peat referred to as peat tar is found to have antiseptic properties and is also
    used as a preservative.
    • A distillate of peat tar, Sphagnol, is useful in treating skin diseases.
    • An extract of Rhodobryum giganteum can increase aorta blood transit by upto 30% in animals.
    • Kidney stones and stones of gall bladder are dissolved by tea made of Polytrichum commune.
    • Burned ash of mosses mixed with fat and honey is used as an ointment for cuts, burns and
    wounds in the Himalayan region.
    • The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha is also used as a medicine for boils and abcesses.
    • Transgenic Physcomitrella are being used to produce ‘blood clotting IX’ for the treatment of
    haemophilia B.
    • Anti-leukemic activity has been observed in Plagiochila fasculata, a leafy bryophyte, which
    seemed to inhibit P388 cells.
    • Anti-microbial effects have been found in several bryophyte species.
    Eg: Polygonial from Porella, Norpiguisone from Conocephalum conicum and Lunularia from
    Lunularia cruciana.
    References
    • Vashishta, B. (2001, January 31). Botany for Degree Students.
    • Crum, H.A., & Vashishta, B.R. (1964). Botany (For Degree Students). Part III.
    Bryophyta. The Bryologist, 67, 382.
    • Ogwu, Matthew. (2019). Ecological and Economic Significance of Bryophytes.
    10.4018/978-1-7998-1226-5.ch004.
    • Chandra, S., Chandra, D., Barh, A., Pankaj, Pandey, R. K., & Sharma, I. P. (2016).
    Bryophytes: Hoard of remedies, an ethno-medicinal review. Journal of traditional and
    complementary medicine, 7(1), 94–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcme.2016.01.007
    • Saxena, D.K., & Harinder (2004). Uses of bryophytes. Resonance, 9, 56-65.

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