Marchantiales is an order of thallose liverworts that includes species like Marchantia polymorpha, a widespread plant often found beside rivers, and Lunularia cruciata, a common and often troublesome
Liverworts are non-vascular land plants in the division Marchantiophyta, also known as hepatics. Liverworts, mosses, and hornworts are collectively known as bryophytes. Like mosses and hornworts, live
Marchantiales
…Marchantiales is an order of thallose liverworts (also known as "complex thalloid liverworts") that includes species like Marchantia polymorpha, a widespread plant often found beside rivers, and…
Assortment of Hepaticae from Kunstformen der Natur, plate 82
A thallose liverwort, Lunularia cruciata
Sexual life cycle of a Marchantia-like liverwort
Marchantia polymorpha, with antheridial and archegonial stalks