Marchantiopsida is a class of liverworts within the phylum Marchantiophyta.[2] The species in this class are known as complex thalloid liverworts. The species in this class are widely distributed and can be found worldwide.[3] Complex oil bodies are only found in the gametophyte.[4]

Marchantiopsida
Marchantia polymorpha
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Marchantiophyta
Class: Marchantiopsida
Cronquist, Takht. et W.Zimm., 1966[1]
Orders

Blasiidae

Marchantiidae

Taxonomy

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Phylogeny

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Villarreal et al. 2015[5] Xiang et al. 2022[6]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Cronquist, A.; Takhtajan, A.; Zimmermann, W. (1966). "On the higher taxa of Embryobionta". Taxon. 15 (4): 129–168. doi:10.2307/1217531. JSTOR 1217531.
  2. ^ Söderström; et al. (2016). "World checklist of hornworts and liverworts". PhytoKeys (59): 1–826. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.59.6261. PMC 4758082. PMID 26929706.
  3. ^ "Class Marchantiopsida | Introduction to Bryophytes". Retrieved 2022-02-19.
  4. ^ Liverwort oil bodies: diversity, biochemistry, and molecular cell biology of the earliest secretory structure of land plants
  5. ^ Villarreal; et al. (2016). "Divergence times and the evolution of morphological complexity in an early land plant lineage (Marchantiopsida) with a slow molecular rate". New Phytologist. 209 (4): 1734–46. doi:10.1111/nph.13716. PMID 26505145.
  6. ^ Xiang, You-Liang; Jin, Xin-Jie; Shen, Chao; Cheng, Xia-Fang; Shu, Lei; Zhu, Rui-Liang; et al. (2022). "New insights into the phylogeny of the complex thalloid liverworts (Marchantiopsida) based on chloroplast genomes". Cladistics. 38 (158): 649–662. doi:10.1111/cla.12513.