class_hepaticae (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *class Hepaticae*:
NOUN	plant	class Hepaticae, Hepaticopsida, class Hepaticopsida, Hepaticae	liverworts

English > *class Hepaticae*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	liverworts: comprises orders Anthocerotales; Jungermanniales; Marchantiales; Sphaerocarpales.
Synonyms	Hepaticopsida, class Hepaticopsida, Hepaticae
Member of	Bryophyta, division Bryophyta	A division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots and having little or no organized vascular tissue and showing alternation of generations between gamete-bearing forms and spore-bearing forms
Members	Jungermanniales, order Jungermanniales	large order of chiefly tropical liverworts
	Marchantiales, order Marchantiales	liverworts with gametophyte differentiated internally
	Sphaerocarpales, order Sphaerocarpales	small order sometimes included in the order Jungermanniales
	liverwort, hepatic	Any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses
Broader	class	(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
Spanish	Hepaticae, hepáticas
Catalan	hepàtiques

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