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Definition of Order Marchantiales
1. Noun. Liverworts with gametophyte differentiated internally.
Generic synonyms: Plant Order
Group relationships: Class Hepaticae, Class Hepaticopsida, Hepaticae, Hepaticopsida
Member holonyms: Family Marchantiaceae, Marchantiaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Marchantiales
Literary usage of Order Marchantiales
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1899)
"The order Marchantiales comprises the two families Ricciaceae (see below) and
Marchantiaceae (see page 34.) Family I. RICCIACEAE. ..."
2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"order Marchantiales.*—There are two families represented in the United States.
Family Ricciaceae, including Riccia and ..."
3. Botany for High Schhools by George Francis Atkinson (1912)
"They belong to the order Marchantiales. The foliose liverworts have a more highly
specialized capsule (the capsule four-valved). ..."
4. Journal of Applied Microscopy by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1903)
"Order, Marchantiales. Family, Ricciaceae. This liverwort has a small, linear,
dichotomously branched thallus which grows floating in ponds and ditches. ..."
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