A plant collected from moist shady habitat has the following characters. A. Photosynthetic gametophyte.B. Multicellular sporophyte dependent on independent gametophyte.C. Multicellular branched rhizoids.D. Juvenile gametophyte is involved in vegetative reproduction but not in sexual reproduction. The plant is a

Mosses are a group of bryophytes which have independent gametophyte on which the sporophyte is dependent. Juvenile gametophyte is branched filamentous, resembles an alga and involved in vegetative reproduction by fragmentation and bud formation but does not form sex organs. Rhizoids are branched filamentous and multicellular.