''Geocalyx'' is a genus 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, the only genus in the family Geocalycaceae of 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 a ...

. The genus has almost

cosmopolitan distribution In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext ...

. Species: * '' Geocalyx caledonicus'' Steph. * '' Geocalyx graveolens'' (Schrad.) Nees

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q17290147, from2=Q13476277 Jungermanniales Jungermanniales genera