Blasiidae

Blasiales

Blasiales

Order of liverworts

Blasiales is an order of liverworts with a single living family and two species. The order has traditionally been classified among the Metzgeriales, but molecular cladistics suggests a placement at the base of the Marchantiopsida.[3]

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Taxonomy

  • Blasiales Stotler & Crandall-Stotler 2000[4][5]
    • Blasiaceae von Klinggräff 1858
      • Blasia Linnaeus 1753
        • Blasia pusilla Linnaeus 1753
      • Cavicularia Stephani 1897 non Pavesi 1881
        • Cavicularia densa Stephani 1897
    • †Treubiitaceae Schuster 1980
      • †Treubiites Schuster 1966
        • †Treubiites kidstonii (Walton 1925) Schuster 1966

References

  1. [1]
    Crandall-Stotler, Barbara; Stotler, Raymond E. (2000). "Morphology and classification of the Marchantiophyta". In A. Jonathan Shaw; Bernard Goffinet (eds.). Bryophyte Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 21–70. ISBN 0-521-66097-1.
  2. [2]
    Schuster, R. M. (1984). "Diagnoses of some new taxa of Hepaticae". Phytologia. 56: 65–74.
  3. [3]
    Forrest, Laura L.; Davis, E. Christine; Long, David G.; Crandall-Stotler, Barbara J.; Clark, Alexandra; Hollingsworth, Michelle L. (2006). "Unraveling the evolutionary history of the liverworts (Marchantiophyta): multiple taxa, genomes and analyses". The Bryologist. 109 (3): 303–334. doi:10.1639/0007-2745(2006)109[303:utehot]2.0.co;2.
  4. [4]
    Soderstrom; et al. (2016). "World checklist of hornworts and liverworts". PhytoKeys (59): 1–826. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.59.6261. PMC 4758082. PMID 26929706.
  5. [5]
    "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.

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