Corsiniaceae is a
family
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of
liverwort
The Marchantiophyta () are a division of non-vascular land plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of ...
s in the
order
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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 ''Lunularia cruciata'', a common and often tro ...
.
[Schuster, Rudolf M. ''The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America'', volume VI. (Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1992). .]
Genera in the family Corsiniaceae
* ''
Corsinia''
* ''
Cronisia''
References
Marchantiales
Liverwort families
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