Marchantiopsida is a class of liverworts within the phylum

Marchantiophyta 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 ge ...

. The species in this class are known as complex thalloid liverworts. The species in this class are widely distributed and can be found worldwide.

Phylogeny

Based on the work by Villarreal et al. 2015

Taxonomy

* Blasiidae He-Nygrén et al. 2006 **

Blasiales Blasiales is an order of liverworts with a single living family and two species. The order has traditionally been classified among the Metzgeriales, but molecular cladistics suggests a placement at the base of the Marchantiopsida Marchantiops ...

Stotl. & Crand.-Stotl. 2000 ***

Blasiaceae Blasiaceae is a family of liverworts with only two species: ''Blasia pusilla'' (a circumboreal species) and ''Cavicularia densa'' (found only in Japan). The family has traditionally been classified among the Metzgeriales, but molecular cladistic ...

H.Klinggr. 1858 *** †

Treubiitaceae ''Treubiites kidstonii'' is a fossil species of liverworts in the family Treubiitaceae. The only known fossils come from Late Carboniferous deposits of Shropshire Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; dem ...

Schuster 1980 * Marchantiidae Engl. 1893 sensu He-Nygrén et al. 2006 **

Lunulariales ''Lunularia cruciata'', the crescent-cup liverwort, is a liverwort of the order Marchantiales (until recently included in the order Lunulariales), and the only species in the genus ''Lunularia'' and family Lunulariaceae. The name, from Latin ' ...

H.Klinggr. 2006 *** Lunulariaceae H.Klinggr. 1858 **

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 t ...

Limpr. 1877 (complex thalloids) ***

Aytoniaceae Aytoniaceae is a family of liverworts 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 o ...

Cavers 1911 ebouliaceae; Grimaldiaceae***

Cleveaceae Cleveaceae is a family of liverworts belonging to the order Marchantiales. Genera: * '' Athalamia'' Falc. * ''Clevea'' Lindb. * '' Peltolepis'' Lindb. * ''Sauteria ''Sauteria'' is a genus of liverwort The Marchantiophyta () are a division ...

Cavers 1911 auteriaceae***

Conocephalaceae ''Conocephalum'' is a genus of complex thalloid liverworts in the order Marchantiales and is the only extant genus in the family Conocephalaceae.AKIYAMA, H. (2022). Morphological and ecological diversification of Conocephalum conicum complex in ...

Müll.Frib. ex Grolle 1972 *** Corsiniaceae Engl. 1892 *** Cyathodiaceae Stotler & Crand.-Stotl. 2000 *** Dumortieraceae Long 2006 *** Exormothecaceae Müll.Frib. ex Grolle 1972 ***

Marchantiaceae Marchantiaceae is a family of liverworts in order Marchantiales. It contains a single genus ''Marchantia''. Genera in Marchantiaceae Until recently, three genera were included in the Marchantiaceae: * '' Bucegia'' Radian 1903 * ''Marchantia'' ...

Lindl. 1836 ***

Monocleaceae ''Monoclea'' is a genus of liverwort that contains two species. It is the only genus in the family Monocleaceae. Species of this genus can be found in New Zealand, South and Central America as well as in the Caribbean. Classifications of the lat ...

A.B.Frank 1877 *** Monosoleniaceae Inoue 1966 *** Oxymitraceae Müll.Frib. ex Grolle 1972 *** Ricciaceae Rchb. 1828 *** Targioniaceae Dumort. 1829 *** Wiesnerellaceae Inoue 1976 ** Neohodgsoniales D.G.Long 2006 *** Neohodgsoniaceae D.G.Long 2006 **

Sphaerocarpales Sphaerocarpales is an order of plants within the liverworts. Approximately twenty species are in this order which is sub-divided into four families Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recogn ...

Cavers 1910 (bottle liverworts) *** Monocarpaceae D.J.Carr ex Schelpe 1969 *** Riellaceae Engl. 1892 ***

Sphaerocarpaceae Sphaerocarpaceae is a family of liverworts known as bottle liverworts. Approximately ten species are included in this family, most of them in the genus ''Sphaerocarpos ''Sphaerocarpos'' is a genus of plants known as bottle liverworts. Ther ...

Heeg 1891

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q147868 Liverworts Plant classes

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