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Definition of Class hepaticae
1. Noun. Liverworts: comprises orders Anthocerotales; Jungermanniales; Marchantiales; Sphaerocarpales.
Exact synonyms: Class Hepaticopsida, Hepaticae, Hepaticopsida
Generic synonyms: Class
Group relationships: Bryophyta, Division Bryophyta
Member holonyms: Hepatic, Liverwort, Jungermanniales, Order Jungermanniales, Marchantiales, Order Marchantiales, Order Sphaerocarpales, Sphaerocarpales
Generic synonyms: Class
Group relationships: Bryophyta, Division Bryophyta
Member holonyms: Hepatic, Liverwort, Jungermanniales, Order Jungermanniales, Marchantiales, Order Marchantiales, Order Sphaerocarpales, Sphaerocarpales
Literary usage of Class hepaticae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essentials of College Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey, Ernst Athearn Bessey (1914)
"class hepaticae. LIVERWORTS 426. In the lower Liverworts the gametophyte is a
flat, expanded thallus of parenchymatous tissue, and this gradually ..."