Treubiaceae is a
family
Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...
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 of the plant carry only a single set of ge ...
in the
order Treubiales.
[Crandall-Stotler, Barbara. & Stotler, Raymond E. "Morphology and classification of the Marchantiophyta". page 63 ''in'' A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (Eds.), ''Bryophyte Biology''. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press:2000). ] Species are large and leafy, and were previously classified among the
Metzgeriales
Metzgeriales is an Order (biology), order of Marchantiophyta, liverworts. The group is sometimes called the simple thalloid liverworts: "thallus, thalloid" because the members lack structures resembling stems or leaves, and "simple" because thei ...
.
References
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Liverwort families
Treubiales
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