Hepaticopsida

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Hepaticopsida - liverworts: comprises orders Anthocerotales; Jungermanniales; Marchantiales; Sphaerocarpalesclass Hepaticae, class Hepaticopsida, Hepaticaeclass - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more ordersBryophyta, division Bryophyta - a division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots and having little or no organized vascular tissue and showing alternation of generations between gamete-bearing forms and spore-bearing forms; comprises true mosses (Bryopsida) and liverworts (Hepaticopsida) and hornworts (Anthoceropsida)hepatic, liverwort - any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mossesJungermanniales, order Jungermanniales - large order of chiefly tropical liverwortsMarchantiales, order Marchantiales - liverworts with gametophyte differentiated internallyorder Sphaerocarpales, Sphaerocarpales - small order sometimes included in the order Jungermanniales