Blasiales

Blasiales Temporal range: Late Carboniferous–Recent PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
"Blasia pusilla" from Strasburger's Lehrbuch der Botanik für Hochschulen, 1900
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Marchantiophyta
Class:	Marchantiopsida
Order:	Blasiales (Schuster) 1966[1] Stotler & Crandall-Stotler 2000[2]
Families
Blasiaceae †Treubiitaceae

Blasiales is an order of liverworts with a single living family and two species. The order has traditionally been classified among the Metzgeriales, but molecular cladistics suggests a placement at the base of the Marchantiopsida.^[3]

Taxonomy

• Blasiales Stotler & Crandall-Stotler 2000^[4][5]
  • †Treubiitaceae Schuster 1980
    • †Treubiites Schuster 1966
      • †Treubiites kidstonii (Walton 1925) Schuster 1966
  • Blasiaceae von Klinggräff 1858
    • Blasia Linnaeus 1753
      • Blasia pusilla Linnaeus 1753
    • Cavicularia Stephani 1897 non Pavesi 1881
      • Cavicularia densa Stephani 1897

References

1. Schuster, R. M. (1984). "Diagnoses of some new taxa of Hepaticae". Phytologia. 56: 65–74.
2. Crandall-Stotler, Barbara; Stotler, Raymond E. (2000). "Morphology and classification of the Marchantiophyta". In A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (Eds.). Bryophyte Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 21–70. ISBN 0-521-66097-1.
3. Forrest, Laura L., Davis, E. Christine, Long, David, G., Crandall-Stotler, Barbara J., Clark, Alexandra & Hollingsworth, Michelle L. 2006. "Unraveling the evolutionary history of the liverworts (Marchantiophyta): multiple taxa, genomes and analyses." The Bryologist 109(3): 303-334.
4. Soderstrom; et al. (2016). "World checklist of hornworts and liverworts". Phytokeys. 59: 1–826. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.59.6261.
5. "Part 2- Plantae (starting with Chlorophycota)". Collection of genus-group names in a systematic arrangement. Retrieved 30 June 2016.

External links

• Liverwort Tree of Life
• Simplified phylogeny of the liverworts