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Definition of Hepaticae
1. Noun. Liverworts: comprises orders Anthocerotales; Jungermanniales; Marchantiales; Sphaerocarpales.
Generic synonyms: Class
Group relationships: Bryophyta, Division Bryophyta
Member holonyms: Hepatic, Liverwort, Jungermanniales, Order Jungermanniales, Marchantiales, Order Marchantiales, Order Sphaerocarpales, Sphaerocarpales
Definition of Hepaticae
1. hepatica [n] - See also: hepatica
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hepaticae
Literary usage of Hepaticae
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)
"the Hepaticae have a rich capacity of regeneration*, especially by severed
portions, and that there is a difference between them and Musci in this ..."
2. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"CLASS I Hepaticae (Liverworts) ('- 92. ... The Hepaticae are divided, according
to the structure of the ..."
3. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"CLASS I Hepaticae (Liverworts) The Hepaticae are divided, according to the
structure of the sporo- gonium and the segmentation exhibited by the sexual ..."
4. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"From the germinating spore is developed either immediately a sexual generation
rich in chlorophyll and self-supporting (as in most Hepaticae), ..."
5. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"I. Hepaticae. THE Liverworts include three main series, which differ, not only
in the structure of the gametophyte but also in the details of the sporophyte ..."