Definition of Marchantiaceae

1. Noun. Liverworts with prostrate and usually dichotomously branched thalli.

Exact synonyms: Family Marchantiaceae
Generic synonyms: Moss Family
Group relationships: Marchantiales, Order Marchantiales
Member holonyms: Genus Marchantia, Marchantia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Marchantiaceae

March 19
March 2
March 25
March Madness
March equinox
March flies
March fly
March hare
Marcha Real
Marchand's adrenals
Marchand's rest
Marchand's wandering cell
Marchant's zone
Marchantia
Marchantia polymorpha
Marchantiaceae (current term)
Marchantiales
Marche
Marches
Marcheshvan
Marchi's fixative
Marchi's reaction
Marchi's stain
Marchi's tract
Marchiafava-Micheli anaemia
Marchiafava-Micheli syndrome
Marchigue
Marchihue
Marchlewszczyzna
Marchy

Literary usage of Marchantiaceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"Marchantiaceae. The formation of scales in Blasia may lead us on to the series of the Marchantiaceae in which we find the vegetative point almost ..."

2. The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (Archegoniatae). by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1905)
"34), who calls attention to its intermediate position between the Ricciaceae and the Marchantiaceae. The thallus has all the characters of the latter: ..."

3. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"In the Marchantiaceae there is regularly present at the distal end of the ... From these notes it appears that in the Marchantiaceae, as compared with the ..."

4. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"Notwithstanding the wide usage of this species and the abundant literature dealing with the development and anatomy of the Marchantiaceae, it appears that ..."

5. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"... of the assimilating cells of certain of the Marchantiaceae. ... cónica, and other Marchantiaceae. The author found that the direction of illumination of ..."

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