''Geocalyx'' is a genus 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, the only genus in the family Geocalycaceae of the order
Jungermanniales
Jungermanniales is the largest order of liverworts. They are distinctive among the liverworts for having thin leaf-like flaps on either side of the stem. Most other liverworts are thalloid, with no leaves. Due to their dorsiventral organization ...
.
The genus has almost
cosmopolitan distribution.
Species:
* ''
Geocalyx caledonicus''
Steph.
* ''
Geocalyx graveolens''
(Schrad.) Nees
References
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Jungermanniales
Jungermanniales genera