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 g ...

. 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. Taxonomy * ...

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 cladis ...

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, England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It sh ...

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 ''l ...

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 tr ...

Limpr. 1877 (complex thalloids) ***

Aytoniaceae Aytoniaceae is a family of liverworts in the order Marchantiales. Genera * '' Asterella'' Palisot De Beauvisage 1805 non Saccardo 1891 non Hara 1936 non Sollas 1886 * '' Cryptomitrium'' Austin ex Underwood 1884 * ''Mannia ''Mannia'' is a g ...

Cavers 1911 ebouliaceae; Grimaldiaceae*** Cleveaceae Cavers 1911 auteriaceae*** Conocephalaceae Müll.Frib. ex Grolle 1972 ***

Corsiniaceae Corsiniaceae is a family of liverworts in the order Marchantiales Marchantiales is an order of thallose liverworts (also known as "complex thalloid liverworts") that includes species like ''Marchantia polymorpha'', a widespread plant often fou ...

Engl. 1892 *** Cyathodiaceae Stotler & Crand.-Stotl. 2000 *** Dumortieraceae Long 2006 ***

Exormothecaceae Exormothecaceae is a family of liverworts in the order Marchantiales. Genera in the family Exormothecaceae The family includes three genera: * ''Aitchisoniella ''Aitchisoniella himalayensis'' is a species of liverwort in the family Exormot ...

Müll.Frib. ex Grolle 1972 *** Marchantiaceae Lindl. 1836 *** Monocleaceae A.B.Frank 1877 *** Monosoleniaceae Inoue 1966 *** Oxymitraceae Müll.Frib. ex Grolle 1972 ***

Ricciaceae Ricciaceae are a family of liverworts in order Marchantiales, with two extant genera. * ''Riccia ''Riccia'' is a genus of liverworts in the order Marchantiales. These plants are small and thalloid, that is not differentiated into root, stem ...

Rchb. 1828 *** Targioniaceae Dumort. 1829 *** Wiesnerellaceae Inoue 1976 **

Neohodgsoniales ''Neohodgsonia'' is a genus of liverworts containing the single species ''Neohodgsonia mirabilis''. ''Neohodgsonia'' is the only genus in the family Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recogni ...

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: Monocarpaceae, Sphaerocarpaceae and Riellaceae, as well as the extinct family Naiaditaceae. ...

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

Riellaceae Sphaerocarpales is an order of plants within the liverworts. Approximately twenty species are in this order which is sub-divided into four families: Monocarpaceae, Sphaerocarpaceae and Riellaceae, as well as the extinct family Naiaditaceae. T ...

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. There ...

Heeg 1891

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