Metzgeria
Encyclopedia
Metzgeria is a genus
of thalloid
liverworts
in the family
Metzgeriaceae
. The genus was named in honor of Johann Christian Metzger, former director of the Heidelberg Botanical Garden.
Approximately 120 to 200 species of Metzgeria have been described. Species may be either monoicous
or dioicous
.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of thalloid
Thallus (tissue)
Thallus, from Latinized Greek θαλλός , meaning a green shoot or twig, is the undifferentiated vegetative tissue of some organisms in diverse groups such as algae, fungus, some liverworts, lichens, and the Myxogastria. Many of these organisms were previously known as the thallophytes, a polyphyletic...
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....
in the 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...
Metzgeriaceae
Metzgeriaceae
Metzgeriaceae is a family of thallose liverworts in the order Metzgeriales. Species may be either monoicous or dioicous....
. The genus was named in honor of Johann Christian Metzger, former director of the Heidelberg Botanical Garden.
Approximately 120 to 200 species of Metzgeria have been described. Species may be either monoicous
Monoicous
Monoicous is a botanical term used to describe plants which bear both sperm and eggs on the same gametophyte. Dioicous is the complementary term describing species in which gametophytes produce only sperm or eggs but never both. The terms are used largely but not exclusively in the context of...
or dioicous
Monoicous
Monoicous is a botanical term used to describe plants which bear both sperm and eggs on the same gametophyte. Dioicous is the complementary term describing species in which gametophytes produce only sperm or eggs but never both. The terms are used largely but not exclusively in the context of...
.