Jungermanniales

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Jungermanniales

[‚jəŋ·gər‚man·ē′ā·lēz]
(botany)
The leafy liverworts, an order of bryophytes in the class Marchantiatae characterized by chlorophyll-containing, ribbonlike or leaflike bodies and an undifferentiated thallus.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Fossombronia or Aneura, but instead shares similarities with the leafy liverworts to which it is not particularly closely related.
Sporogenesis in bryophytes: patterns and diversity in meiosis
Pre-meiotic bands and novel meiotic spindle ontogeny in quadrilobed sporocytes of leafy liverworts (Jungermannidae, Bryophyta).
Sporogenesis in bryophytes: patterns and diversity in meiosis

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