Haplomitriales
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Haplomitriales is an order
of plants known as liverworts
. The order is also called Calobryales in some sources, but the genus Calobryum is a synonym for Haplomitrium.
This order contains one family
, Haplomitriaceae, with a single extant genus Haplomitrium.
Order (biology)
In scientific classification used in biology, the order is# a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, family, genus, and species, with order fitting in between class and family...
of plants known as liverworts
Marchantiophyta
The Marchantiophyta are a division of bryophyte plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts. Like other bryophytes, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of genetic information....
. The order is also called Calobryales in some sources, but the genus Calobryum is a synonym for Haplomitrium.
This order contains one family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
, Haplomitriaceae, with a single extant genus Haplomitrium.
Species of Haplomitriales
- GessellaGessellaGessella is a fossil genus of liverworts in the family Haplomitriaceae. All known fossils come from Early Permian deposits of Western Sealand....
, Poulsen (a fossil) - Haplomitrium cooperi, Nees.
- Haplomitrium scalia, Nees.