Marchantia
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Marchantia is a genus in family Marchantiaceae of order Marchantiales, a group of liverworts.
These are simple plants without roots or vascular systems. They were once considered related to moss and part of division Bryophyta, but more recently have been assigned their own plant division, Marchantiophyta.
[edit] Species names of Marchantia
- Marchantia berteroana,
- Marchantia chenopoda
- Marchantia domingenis,
- Marchantia foliacia,
- Marchantia inflexa,
- Marchantia macropora,
- Marchantia paleacea,
- Marchantia polymorpha (also as M. aquatica),

