Marchantiaceae

Marchantiaceae
Marchantia polymorpha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Marchantiophyta
Class:	Marchantiopsida
Order:	Marchantiales
Family:	Marchantiaceae Lindl.[1]
Genera
Marchantia

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:^[2][3]

• 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.^[4]

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

References

1. Lindley, J. (1836). A Natural System of Botany (2nd ed.). London. p. 412.
2. Soderstrom; et al. (2016). "World checklist of hornworts and liverworts". PhytoKeys (59): 1–826. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.59.6261. PMC 4758082. PMID 26929706.
3. "Part 2- Plantae (starting with Chlorophycota)". Collection of genus-group names in a systematic arrangement. Archived from the original on 6 October 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
4. 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.

External links

• Family information