Blasiales Explained

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.^[1]

Taxonomy

• Blasiales Stotler & Crandall-Stotler 2000^{[2] [3]}
  • Blasiaceae von Klinggräff 1858
    • Blasia Linnaeus 1753
      • Blasia pusilla Linnaeus 1753
    • Cavicularia Stephani 1897 non Pavesi 1881
      • Cavicularia densa Stephani 1897
  • †Treubiitaceae Schuster 1980
    • †Treubiites Schuster 1966
      • †Treubiites kidstonii (Walton 1925) Schuster 1966

External links

• Liverwort Tree of Life
• Simplified phylogeny of the liverworts

Notes and References

1. Forrest . Laura L. . Davis . E. Christine . Long . David G. . Crandall-Stotler . Barbara J. . Clark . Alexandra . Hollingsworth . Michelle L. . 2006 . Unraveling the evolutionary history of the liverworts (Marchantiophyta): multiple taxa, genomes and analyses . The Bryologist . 109 . 3. 303–334 . 10.1639/0007-2745(2006)109[303:utehot]2.0.co;2.
2. Soderstrom . 2016 . World checklist of hornworts and liverworts . PhytoKeys . 59 . 1–826. 10.3897/phytokeys.59.6261. etal . 26929706 . 4758082 . free .
3. Collection of genus-group names in a systematic arrangement . Part 2- Plantae (starting with Chlorophycota) . etal . 30 June 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161006175801/http://mave.tweakdsl.nl/tn/genera2.html . 6 October 2016 . dead .