Lexic.us

Definition of Genus marchantia

1. Noun. Type genus of Marchantiaceae; liverworts that reproduce asexually by gemmae and have stalked antheridiophores.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Marchantia

Literary usage of Genus marchantia

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

1. Studien zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des japanischen Riesensalamanders by Charles Stuart Gager, Daniel Lange (1916)
"Genus. Marchantia. Species. polymorpha. B. Habitat: THE GAMETOPHYTE 1. This plant grows very abundantly on the soil of flower pots and benches in nearly all ..."

2. Fossil Plants: A Text-book for Students of Botany and Geology by Albert Charles Seward (1898)
"... the general appearance being very similar to that of some recent forms of the genus Marchantia. A closely allied species has recently been described ..."

3. Fossil Botany: Being an Introduction to Palaeophytology from the Standpoint by Hermann Solms-Laubach, Henry Edward Fowler Garnsey (1891)
"... several species of the genus Marchantia, which agree in habit with forms now living in the tropics. Two of them have been described by ..."

4. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1895)
"In those liverworts which belong to the genus Marchantia they form a thick felt on the under side of the leaf-like plant, or rather, on such part of it as ..."

5. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"Marchantiaceae. —This family includes the most highly specialized of the Marchantiales. The familiar genus Marchantia may be used as an illustration. ..."

6. Botany for High Schools and Colleges by Charles Edwin Bessey (1880)
"This mode of reproduction is well illustrated in the genus Marchantia, in which small cup-shaped organs (4 to 6 mm. in diameter) develop upon the upper side ..."

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