Marchantiopsida

Marchantiopsida
Fountain liver moss ( Marchantia polymorpha )
Systematics
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Scientific name
Marchantiopsida
Cronquist , Takht. et W.Zimm.

The Marchantiopsida are one of the classes of liverworts from the kingdom of plants . The class includes around 400 species.

features

The class has few features in common. These are the thallous organization, a single-layer sporangia wall , and special oil bodies in chlorophyll-free cells. The rest of the structure is quite different in the individual subclasses.

The species of Marchantiidae have a complex thallus . Most species have air chambers inside the thallus and breathing pores. In their tissue there are oil bodies made of terpenes , which give them a typical scent. The Sphaerocarpidae have a partly lobed, partly winged thallus, and the Monocleidae have a very simple thallus organization. The term "complex liverworts", which is often used for the whole class, therefore only applies to the Marchantiidae.

The diploid sporophyte in Marchantiopsida is covered for a very long time by the wall of the archegonium and only appears shortly before the maturity of the meio spores . These are then pressed out of the spore chamber with the help of elaters .

Systematics

The Marchantiopsida comprise 19 families, 32 genera and around 380 species in two subclasses:

• Subclass Sphaerocarpidae
  • Order Sphaerocarpales
• Subclass Marchantiidae
  • Order Marchantiales
  • Order ricciales
  • Order monocleales
  • Order Neohodgsoniales
  • Order lunulariales

literature

• Jan-Peter Frahm : Biology of Mosses . Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg and Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8274-0164-X
• Jan-Peter Frahm, Wolfgang Frey , J. Döring: Moosflora . 4th, revised and expanded edition (UTB for Science, Volume 1250). Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8001-2772-5 (Ulmer) & ISBN 3-8252-1250-5 (UTB)

Web links

Commons : Marchantiopsida  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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. 26-35 .