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Marchantiales 
Conocephalum conicum - a thallose liverwort Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Marchantiophyta Class: Marchantiopsida Order: Marchantiales
Limpr., 1877[1]Families See Classification
Marchantiales is an order of thallose liverworts that includes species like Lunularia cruciata, a common and often troublesome weed in moist, temperate gardens and greenhouses.
As in other bryophytes, the gametophyte generation is dominant, with the sporophyte existing as a short-lived part of the life cycle, dependent upon the gametophyte.
The genus Marchantia is often used to typify the order, although there are also many species of Asterella and species of the genus Riccia are more numerous. The majority of genera are characterized by the presence of (a) special stalked vertical branches called archegoniophores or carocephala, and (b) sterile cells celled elaters inside the sporangium.
Classification
- Aytoniaceae
- Cleveaceae
- Conocephalaceae
- Corsiniaceae
- Cyathodiaceae
- Exormothecaceae
- Lunulariaceae
- Marchantiaceae
- Monocarpaceae
- Monosoleniaceae
- Oxymitraceae
- Ricciaceae
- Targioniaceae
- Wiesnerellaceae
Cross section through a marchantialian thallus.References
- ^ Limpricht, G. (1877 "1876"). "Lebermoose". In Cohn, F.. Kryptogamen-Flora von Schlesien. 1. pp. 225–352.
- Crandall-Stotler, Barbara J. & Stotler, Raymond E. "Morphology and classification of the Marchantiophyta". page 63 in A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (Eds.), Bryophyte Biology. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press:2000). ISBN 0-521-66097-1.
- Grolle, Riclef (1983). "Nomina generica Hepaticarum; references, types and synonymies". Acta Botanica Fennica 121, 1-62.
External links
Categories: Liverworts | Plant orders | Bryophyte stubs
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