Exormothecaceae 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 ...
.
Genera in the family Exormothecaceae
The family includes three genera:
* ''
Aitchisoniella
''Aitchisoniella himalayensis'' is a species of liverwort in the family Exormothecaceae. Its natural habitats are rocky areas and cold desert of Sichuan and Himachal Pradesh. It is threatened by habitat loss
Habitat destruction (also term ...
''
Kashyap
* ''
Exormotheca
''Exormotheca'' is a group of liverworts in the family Exormothecaceae. It was described as a genus in 1870.
;Species
# '' Exormotheca bischlerae'' Furuki & Higuchi - China
# '' Exormotheca bulbigena'' Bornefeld, O.H. Volk & R. Wolf - Namibia ...
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Mitt.
* ''
Stephensoniella''
Kashyap
References
Marchantiales
Liverwort families
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