Adelanthaceae is a family of
liverwort
The Marchantiophyta () 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 ...
s belonging to the order
Jungermanniales
Jungermanniales is the largest order of liverworts. They are distinctive among the liverworts for having thin leaf-like flaps on either side of the stem. Most other liverworts are thalloid, with no leaves. Due to their dorsiventral organization ...
.
Genera: (with how many species per genus)
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Adelanthus''
Mitt. - 11 spp.
* ''
Cuspidatula''
Steph. - 7 spp.
* ''
Denotarisia''
Grolle - 1 sp.
* ''
Jamesoniella''
(Spruce) Carrington - 19 spp.
* ''
Nothostrepta''
R.M.Schust. - 2 spp.
* ''
Pisanoa''
Hässel - 1 sp.
* ''
Protosyzygiella''
(Inoue) R.M.Schust. - 1 sp.
* ''
Pseudomarsupidium''
Herzog - 5 spp.
* ''
Syzygiella''
Spruce - 56 spp.
* ''
Vanaea''
(Inoue & Gradst.) Inoue & Gradst. - 1 sp.
* ''
Wettsteinia''
Schiffn. - 4 spp.
References
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Jungermanniales
Liverwort families