Blasiales

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Blasiales
Fossil range: Late Carboniferous to recent
"Blasia pusilla" from Strasburger's Lehrbuch der Botanik für Hochschulen, 1900
"Blasia pusilla" from Strasburger's Lehrbuch der Botanik für Hochschulen, 1900
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Marchantiophyta
Class: Marchantiopsida
Order: Blasiales
(R. M. Schust). Stotler & Stotl.-Crand., 2000
Families

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.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ 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.

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