Lepidocial

Lepidocial
	Lepidozia reptans
Systematics
without rank:	Streptophyta
Empire :	Plants (Plantae)
Department :	Liverworts (Marchantiophyta)
Class :	Jungermanniopsida
Subclass :	Jungermanniidae
Order :	Lepidocial
Scientific name
	Lepidocial
	Slyakov

The Lepidoziales are an order of leafy liverworts .

features

The moss plants are quite variable, one to multiple pinnate or seemingly forked. Often there are flagellar branches. The leaves are usually lobed two to four times; in some genera they are stunted and have few cells. There are sub-leaves, but they can vary in size. The species are diocesan or autocratic . The slender perianth is egg-shaped to spindle-shaped, triangular and contracted at the mouth. The ovoid-cylindrical spore capsule opens with 4 flaps.

Systematics

According to Frey et al. three families:

Family Lepidoziaceae , 29 genera in 7 subfamilies, about 440 species
Family Phycolepidoziaceae , 1 genus with 1 species
Family Neogrolleaceae , 1 genus with 1 species

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Wolfgang Frey, Eberhard Fischer, Michael Stech: Bryophytes and seedless Vascular Plants . In: Wolfgang Frey (Ed.): Syllabus of Plant Families - A. Engler's Syllabus of Plant Families . 13th edition. tape 3 . Borntraeger, Berlin / Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-443-01063-8 , pp. 69-75 .

[Syll-1] Wolfgang Frey, Eberhard Fischer, Michael Stech: Bryophytes and seedless Vascular Plants . In: Wolfgang Frey (Ed.): Syllabus of Plant Families - A. Engler's Syllabus of Plant Families . 13th edition. tape 3 . Borntraeger, Berlin / Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-443-01063-8 , pp. 69-75 .