| Meaning | liverworts: comprises orders Anthocerotales; Jungermanniales; Marchantiales; Sphaerocarpales. |
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| Synonyms | Hepaticopsida, Hepaticae, class Hepaticae |
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| 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 |
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| Members | Jungermanniales, order Jungermanniales | large order of chiefly tropical liverworts |
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| 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 |
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| Spanish | Hepaticae, hepáticas |
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| Catalan | hepàtiques |
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