''Sphaerocarpos'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of plants known as bottle

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 ...

s. There are eight or nine

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriat ...

in this genus.

Classification

''Sphaerocarpos'' is one of two extant genera in the famly

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 ...

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Sphaerocarpos cristatus ''Sphaerocarpos'' is a genus of plants known as bottle liverworts. There are eight or nine species in this genus. Classification ''Sphaerocarpos'' is one of two extant genera in the famly Sphaerocarpaceae. The following species are currently ...

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Sphaerocarpos donnelli ''Sphaerocarpos'' is a genus of plants known as bottle liverworts. There are eight or nine species In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodi ...

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Sphaerocarpos drewei ''Sphaerocarpos drewiae'' is a species of liverwort in the family 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 ''Sp ...

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Sphaerocarpos hians ''Sphaerocarpos'' is a genus of plants known as bottle liverworts. There are eight or nine species in this genus. Classification ''Sphaerocarpos'' is one of two extant genera in the famly Sphaerocarpaceae. The following species are currently ...

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Sphaerocarpos michelii ''Sphaerocarpos'' is a genus of plants known as bottle liverworts. There are eight or nine species in this genus. Classification ''Sphaerocarpos'' is one of two extant genera in the famly Sphaerocarpaceae. The following species are currently ...

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Sphaerocarpos muccilloi ''Sphaerocarpos muccilloi'' is a species of liverwort in the family Sphaerocarpaceae. Description ''Sphaerocarpos muccilloi'' grows in pale green mats. The thallus tissue is around five cells thick towards the center of the plant, but becomes ...

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Sphaerocarpos stipitatus ''Sphaerocarpos'' is a genus of plants known as bottle liverworts. There are eight or nine species In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodi ...

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Sphaerocarpos texanus ''Sphaerocarpos texanus'', the Texas balloonwort, is a species of liverwort in the Sphaerocarpaceae family, found in the Americas, northern Africa and Europe. Description ''Sphaerocarpos texanus'' are small, thalloid, dioecious liverworts. Th ...

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Sphaerocarpales Liverwort genera {{Bryophyte-stub