Cleveaceae 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 g ...
s belonging to the order
Marchantiales
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 tr ...
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Genera:
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Athalamia''
Falc.
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Clevea
''Clevea'' is a genus of liverworts belonging to the family Cleveaceae.
The genus was first described by Sextus Otto Lindberg in 1869.
The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term ...
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Lindb.
* ''
Peltolepis''
Lindb.
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Sauteria
''Sauteria'' is a genus of liverwort in the family Cleveaceae. It contains the following species:
* ''Sauteria alpina'' (Nees & Bisch.) Nees
* ''Sauteria berteroana'' Mont. nresolved* ''Sauteria chilensis'' (Lindenb. ex Mont.) Grolle
* ''Saute ...
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Nees
References
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Marchantiales
Liverwort families