Odontoschisma Africanum
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''Odontoschisma'' 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 belonging to the family
Cephaloziaceae Cephaloziaceae is a family of liverworts. Liverworts of this family are dioecious plants which have creeping or upright forms. They are green, brown, reddish, or purplish in color. The leaves are alternately arranged and succubous. Oil bodies a ...
. The genus has
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: * '' Odontoschisma africanum'' (Pearson) Sim * '' Odontoschisma atropurpureum'' Stephani


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{{Taxonbar, from=Q17283336 Cephaloziaceae Jungermanniales genera