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The Marchantiophyta (/ mɑːrˌkæntiˈɒfətə, - oʊˈfaɪtə / ⓘ) are a division of non-vascular land plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte -dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of genetic information. It is estimated that there are ...
Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (/ braɪˈɒfətə /, [3] / ˌbraɪ.əˈfaɪtə /) sensu stricto. Bryophyta (sensu lato, Schimp. 1879 [4]) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and hornworts. [5] Mosses typically form dense green clumps or mats ...
Hornwort. Phaeoceros laevis (L.) Prosk. see Classification. Hornworts are a group of non-vascular Embryophytes (land plants) constituting the division Anthocerotophyta (/ ˌænθoʊˌsɛrəˈtɒfətə, - təˈfaɪtə /). The common name refers to the elongated horn-like structure, which is the sporophyte.
Bryophytes (/ ˈbraɪ.əˌfaɪts /) [ 1 ] are a group of land plants (embryophytes), sometimes treated as a taxonomic division, that contains three groups of non-vascular land plants: the liverworts, hornworts, and mosses. [ 2 ] In the strict sense, the division Bryophyta consists of the mosses only. Bryophytes are characteristically limited in ...
All other living groups of land plants have a life cycle dominated by the diploid sporophyte generation. It is in the diploid sporophyte that vascular tissue develops. In some ways, the term "non-vascular" is a misnomer. Some mosses and liverworts do produce a special type of vascular tissue composed of complex water-conducting cells.
Conocephalum is a genus of complex thalloid liverworts in the order Marchantiales and is the only extant genus in the family Conocephalaceae. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Some species of Conocephalum are assigned to the Conocephalum conicum complex, which includes several cryptic species. [ 1 ]Conocephalum species are large liverworts with distinct patterns on ...
Marchantiales is an order of thallose liverworts (also known as "complex thalloid liverworts") that includes species like Marchantia polymorpha, a widespread plant often found beside rivers, and Lunularia cruciata, a common and often troublesome weed in moist, temperate gardens and greenhouses.
Anemone hepatica (syn. Hepatica nobilis), the common hepatica, liverwort, [2] liverleaf, [3] kidneywort, or pennywort, is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to woodland in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.