Marchantiaceae Explained

Marchantiaceae is a family of liverworts in order Marchantiales. It contains a single genus Marchantia.

Genera in Marchantiaceae

Until recently, three genera were included in the Marchantiaceae:^{[1] [2]}

• Bucegia Radian 1903
• Marchantia Linnaeus 1753
• Preissia Corda 1829 non Opiz 1852

However, the genera Bucegia and Preissia have since been merged into Marchantia, leaving only the single genus in the family.^[3]

A number of additional genera have been moved to other families:

• • • • • Asterella, now in family Aytoniaceae Conocephalum, now in family Conocephalaceae Dumortiera, now in family Dumortieraceae Lunularia, now in family Lunulariaceae Reboulia, now in family Aytoniaceae
• Neohodgsonia, now in family Neohodgsoniaceae

External links

• Family information

Notes and References

1. Soderstrom . 2016 . World checklist of hornworts and liverworts . PhytoKeys . 59 . 1–826. 10.3897/phytokeys.59.6261. etal . 26929706 . 4758082 . free .
2. 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 .
3. Long, David G., Laura L. Forrest, Juan Carlos Villarreal, Barbara J. Crandall-Stotler. 2016. "Taxonomic changes in Marchantiaceae, Corsiniaceae and Cleveaceae (Marchantiidae, Marchantiophyta)". Phytotaxa 252 (1): 077–080.