Geocalyx Graveolens
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''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 ''Geocalyx'' is a genus of liverworts, the only genus in the family Geocalycaceae of the order Jungermanniales. The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon t ...
'' Steph. * '' Geocalyx graveolens'' (Schrad.) Nees


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