Moerckiaceae is a family of liverworts in the order Pallaviciniales. The plants are thallose, typically organized as a thick central costa (midvein), each side with a broad wing of tissue one cell in thickness. All species are dioicous.
Moerckiaceae | |
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Moerckia flotoviana (male) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Division: | Marchantiophyta |
Class: | Jungermanniopsida |
Order: | Pallaviciniales |
Family: | Moerckiaceae Stotler & Crand.-Stotl., 2007[1] |
Genera | |
References
edit- ^ Crandall-Stotler, B. J.; R. E. Stotler (2007). "On the identity of Moerckia hibernica (Hook.) Gottsche (Moerckiaceae fam. nov., Marchantiophyta)". Nova Hedwigia, Beihefte. 131: 41–59.