Definition of 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
Click the following link to bring up a new window with an automated collection of images related to the term: Marchantiales Images
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marchantiales
Literary usage of Marchantiales
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"The archegonia are developed as among the Marchantiales, with three vertical intersecting walls, a cap cell, and a central cell which develops the axial row ..."
2. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1902)
"Order I. Marchantiales These very characteristic plants possess a prostrate, fleshy thallus (Figs. 163, 164), which usually grows upon the earth, ..."
3. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1907)
"Order I. Marchantiales These very characteristic plants possess a prostrate, fleshy thallus (Figs. !(i.ii, 164), which usually grows upon the earth, ..."
4. 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. ..."