Blasiales

Blasiales
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous–Recent
"Blasia pusilla" from Strasburger's Lehrbuch der Botanik für Hochschulen, 1900
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Marchantiophyta
Class: Marchantiopsida
Order: Blasiales
(R.M. Schust.)[1] Stotler & Stotl.-Crand., 2000[2]
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.[3]

References

  1. ^ Schuster, R. M. (1984). "Diagnoses of some new taxa of Hepaticae". Phytologia 56: 65–74. 
  2. ^ 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. 
  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.

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