Blasiales

Taxobox
fossil_range = Late Carboniferous to recent
name = Blasiales

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Blasia pusilla" from Strasburger's "Lehrbuch der Botanik für Hochschulen", 1900
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Marchantiophyta
classis = Marchantiopsida
ordo = Blasiales
ordo_authority = (R. M. Schust). Stotler & Stotl.-Crand., 2000
subdivision_ranks = Families
subdivision =
*Blasiaceae
*Treubiitaceae †

Blasiales is an order of liverworts with a single living family and two species. The order has traditionally been classified among the Metzgeriales, but molecular cladistics suggests a placement at the base of the Marchantiopsida.Forrest, Laura L., Davis, E. Christine, Long, David, G., Crandall-Stotler, Barbara J., Clark, Alexandra & Hollingsworth, Michelle L. 2006. "Unraveling the evolutionary history of the liverworts (Marchantiophyta): multiple taxa, genomes and analyses." "The Bryologist" 109(3): 303-334.]

References

External links

* [http://www.biology.duke.edu/bryology/LiToL/ Liverwort Tree of Life]
* [http://bryophytes.plant.siu.edu/treeforweb.html Simplified phylogeny of the liverworts]