Bryophytes that prefer dark and damp places find them suitable for flourishing.

耐阴喜湿的苔藓植物在这里找到适合的生长环境。

We don't taxonomise lower plants into one category, like bryophytes, based on their method of reproduction.

我们并不根据低等植物的繁殖方式将它们分为 “苔藓植物门” 这样的类别。

We're talking bryophytes and seedless vascular plants, the categories that include mosses and ferns, liverworts, and more.

我们说的是苔藓植物和无籽维管植物，这类植物包括苔藓、蕨类、苔类等。

Let's start with the bryophytes, which occupy the lowest branch.

让我们从苔藓植物开始，它们占据了最低的树枝。

This might make it tempting to say that bryophytes are " less evolved" than the flowering plants, the highest branch.

这可能会让人忍不住说苔藓植物比开花植物“进化得更慢”，开花植物是最高的分支。

Even with lichens removed, bryophytes is a busy realm, with over ten thousand species contained within some seven hundred genera.

即使不算地衣，苔藓仍是个兴旺的王国，大约有700个属，1万多个种。

And is there any being in the plant kingdom that embodies touch more than moss and its family, the bryophytes?

而植物王国中难道还有比藓类及其亲族苔藓植物更能体现触碰的存在吗？

You see, bryophytes were the first plants to start growing on land instead of in water.

苔藓植物是第一批在陆地上而不是水中生长的植物。

The most common types of bryophytes are mosses, with about twelve thousand species.

苔藓植物最常见的类型是苔藓，大约有 12000 种。

So they developed root-like structures called rhizoids, and leaf-like structures called phyllids, which bryophytes still have today.

所以它们进化出了像根一样的结构，被称为类根，和像叶一样的结构，被称为 phyllids，苔藓植物至今仍有这种结构。