Pelliopsida

Pelliopsida
	Pellia epiphylla
Systematics
without rank:	Charophyta
without rank:	Phragmoplastophyta
without rank:	Streptophyta
Empire :	Plants (Plantae)
Department :	Liverworts (Marchantiophyta)
Class :	Pelliopsida
Scientific name
	Pelliopsida
	W. Frey & Stech

The Pelliopsida are a class of liverworts . It includes only 2 orders with about 6 to 8 species.

features

Mosses of the class Pelliopsida are stemless and thallose (order Pelliales ) or leafy (order Noterocladales ) plants. Antheridia are sunk on top of the thallus . The spherical spore capsules open with four (six) flaps. Spores are multicellular.

Systematics

According to the system of Frey et al. the class comprises two orders:

Noterocladales , 1–2 species found in America and on islands in the South Atlantic
Pelliales , 5–6 species, common in the Holarctic

swell

literature

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. Vol. 3, Borntraeger, Berlin / Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-443-01063-8 .

Individual evidence

↑ 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. 41 f .

[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. 41 f .