liverwort: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Marchantiophyta • Hepatopsida

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Close-up of the green, textured thallus of a liverwort plant with visible gametophytes, showing lobed, leaf-like structures typical of bryophytes.

Liverwort archegonia

Green, flat thalloid liverwort Marchantia with several round gemma cups visible on its surface, growing on moist soil.

Conocephalum conicum, sometimes known as great scented liverwort; asexual plants (sporophytes) rise on long stalks from the leaflike thallus of the sexual plants (gametophytes)

A green thalloid liverwort with a single stalk-like archegonium, the female reproductive organ, emerging upright from its surface.

Study spore-producing liverworts and their anatomic features such as gametes, thalli, and rhizoids

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Marchantiales thallose liverwort Treubiales Sphaerocarpales Monocleales Metzgeriales Haplomitriales leafy liverwort Carrpos Cryptothallus angiosperm fern conifer cycadophyte gnetophyte lycophyte ginkgophyte moss hornwort Cycadeoidophyta

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