11 Brisgel

Name: Brisgel
Descendent of: Brisgi
Description: The base of the plant binds often wet soil, usually above the tide line but can still live with mild submersion. It's a tangle mat of strong fibres and living transport channels of varying sizes and circumference cell count.
They have a spongy water-retentive leafy tissue evolved from the spore-bearing bristles. Not all of these are spore-bearing in the current species, some are only for photosynthesis. The skin of the plant provides most of the structure and strength and is rubbery and floppy, but keeps water inside.
Their sporing pores have pushed inside-out and up out of the pore opening forming a trumpet-end-shaped spore casting organ. It can cast it's spores on the wind this way. When sparsely populated they are asexual clones.
When densely populated (detected by stress from competition and fibre mat intermingling) these organs form haploid spores. A second type of haploid spore, male, is produced that is smaller and lands on the trumpet surface of the female (most likely of the same plant, but often nearby plants too) and migrates to the female haploid spore, fertilizing it before it's cast.
Spores are cast dry on the wind, but if wet will be washed into the sea and sometimes still stand a chance of being washed up elsewhere.
Reproduction: Spores asexually most of the time, but sexually mixes during crowding. It also to a lesser degree reproduces by growth and fragmentation (clones).
Food: Photosynthesis
Ocean Locations: 1 (Coast), 2 (Coast) Land Locations: 1 (Coast), 1 (River), 1 (Swamp), 2 (Coast), 2 (River), 2 (Swamp)

Genetic Ancestor(s)

• 5 Brisgi

Genetic Descendants

• 21 Casgel