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Hepaticophyta

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Websites
The classification of the liverworts, with images of distinguishing characteristics.
http://www.science.siu.edu/landp...nts/Hepatophyta/hepatophyta.html

Images of some south US liverworts.
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Hepatic Orders  Structures associated with sexual reproduction antheridia and archegonia of Porella (prepared slides) click to enlarge Sporophyte development in Marchantia (prepared slide) click to enlarge Sporophytes and associated structures Many, but not all, liverworts have oil bodies. While the function of...
http://www2.una.edu/pdavis/hepatic_orders.htm

Descriptions of the anatomical structures of liverworts.
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Liverworts  The name liverwort derives from the Anglo-Saxon word lifer, meaning liver and wyrt the Anglo-Saxon word for plant. During the 16th century, it was commonly applied to the genus Marchantia, a flat, branching, ribbon-shaped plant the margins of which were...
http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/liverwts.html

A description of the Division.
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LIVERWORTS  Alternation of generations revisited Alternation of generations is a general feature of plants. Liverworts are the simplest true plants and in order to understand their life cycles it is important to know the following terminology: the diploid generation is called...
http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/hcs300/liver1.htm

A microscopic image of the longitudinal section of a sporophyte.
http://www.lima.ohio-state.edu/biology/images/marspor1.jpg

A microscopic image of the longitudinal section of a sporophyte containing spores.
http://www.lima.ohio-state.edu/biology/images/marspor2.jpg

Microscopic image of the asexual, haploid, propagules.
http://www.lima.ohio-state.edu/biology/images/gemmae.jpg

3D images of Fossombronia wondraczekii, Lophozia ventricosa, Pellia epiphylla, Plagiochila asplenioides and Scapania gracilis.
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3D Bryophyte Images: Liverworts  Fossombronia wondraczekii Lophozia ventricosa Pellia epiphylla Plagiochila asplenioides Scapania gracilis 3D Mosses Introduction...
http://freespace.virgin.net/jonathan.sleath/bryology/lwts.HTM

The full text PhD of Sanna Laaka-Lindberg.
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http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julka...o/vk/laaka-lindberg/ecologyo.pdf

Photographs mainly of thalloid liverworts.
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 A small mushroom emerging from a clump of mosses and liverworts (probably Asterella) on a shady, moist bank in the chaparral of southern California. The upright structures on the liverworts are archegoniophores (female reproductive structures) bearing young spore-bearing capsules on...
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/bryoph1.htm

Images of several of the features of liverworts.
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Untitled  Bryophyta: Hepaticae (Liverworts) thallose gametophyte thallose gametophyte with lobed archeognial head on top of archeogoniophore thallose gametophyte with antheridial disc on top of antheridophore thallose gametophyte; both antheridial disc, lobed archeonial head, antheridiophore, archegoniophore lobed archegonial head on top of...
http://www.humboldt.edu/~dll2/bot105/bryo/liver.htm