Liverwort Diversity A) ______________________

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Liverwort Diversity

LEAFY LIVERWORTS(Jungermanniales)

> 280 Genera

> 7,000 Species

6

Leafy Liverworts

Lateral Leaves (Succubous)

Leafy Liverworts

Lateral Leaves (Incubous)

23

Leafy Liverworts

Complicately Bilobed Lateral Leaves

Underleaves

Leafy Liverworts

Leafy Liverworts

Leaf Complexity

Bazzania

Leafy Liverworts

Leaf Complexity

Cephalozia

Leafy Liverworts

Leaf Complexity

Trichocolea

8

9

Leafy Liverworts

Leaf Complexity

Porella

Frullania

Leafy Liverworts

Leaf Complexity

Life Stage: 17

Leafy Liverworts

18

Leafy Liverworts

Female Gametangia, Perichaetial Leaves

19

Leafy Liverworts

Male Gametangia, Perigonial Leaves

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Acrogynous Anacrogynous

Leafy Liverworts

Gametangia Position

Leafy Liverworts

Life Stage:

Leafy Liverworts

Young Sporophyte

Leafy Liverworts

Young Sporangium, Sporocytes, Elaters

Leafy Liverworts

Mature Sporophyte, Sporangum Dehiscence

22

Leafy Liverworts

Ribbon Liverworts (Metzgeriales)

• ~ 28 Genera

• ~ 550 Species

Oldest Fossil Liverworts

Pallavicinites (370-360 MYA) Pallavicinia (Modern)

Metzgeriothallus (350-360 MYA) Metzgeria

2425

Pellia

Ribbon Liverworts (Metzgeriales)

Gametophyte Diversity

Ribbon Liverworts (Metzgeriales)

Aneura

Gametophyte Diversity

26

27

Ribbon Liverworts (Metzgeriales)

Gametophyte Diversity

Pallavicinia

Metzgeria

Fossombronia

Ribbon Liverworts (Metzgeriales)

Gametophyte Diversity

28

29Gametophyte Diversity

Ribbon Liverworts (Metzgeriales)

Riccardia

Ribbon Liverworts

Gametophyte Complexity

Ribbon Liverworts

Location of Gametangia

Ribbon Liverworts

Gametangia

Ribbon Liverworts

Sporophytes

Ribbon Liverworts

Young Sporangium, Sporocytes, Elaters

Ribbon Liverworts

Mature Sporangium, Sporangium Dehiscence

Next: Chambered Thallose Liverworts(Marchantiales)

1 http://bryophytes.plant.siu.edu/images/Frullania_Yunnan__ China.jpg

2 http://www2.una.edu/pdavis/images/liverworts/Frullania%20inflata.jpg

3 http://www.pitt.edu/~severson/ainh/images/frullania.jpg

4 http://www.drehwald.info/wallpaper/Plagiochila_spinulosa_400.jpg

5 http://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/images/6095

6 http://www.hlasek.com/foto/bazzania_trilobata_ae0417.jpg

7 http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/plants/bryophyta/hepaticopsida/ jungermanniales/lophocoleaceae/lophocolea/heterophylla-1.jpg

8 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Porella_ platyphylla.jpg/800px-Porella_platyphylla.jpg

9 http://www.ijon.de/moose/images/p-m0l.jpg

10 http://www.vydrica.sk/photos/flora2.jpg

11 http://www.norrkoping.snf.se/skogsgruppen/skogen060506/ dunmossa23.jpg

12 http://www2.lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de/public/abt2/dokablage/diaarchiv/ 1/R10002347.jpg

13 http://subject.forest.gov.tw/species/mosses/liverworts/pic/p137.jpg

14 http://subject.forest.gov.tw/species/mosses/liverworts/pic/p137.jpg

15 http://www.botany.ubc.ca/bryophyte/stanleypark/scapania_undulata/scapania_ undulata_1.jpg

16 http://www.botany.ubc.ca/bryophyte/8097.jpg

17 http://www.nps.gov/archive/olym/crypto/photo/V_PONA.jpg

18 http://www2.una.edu/pdavis/porarch.jpg

19 http://www2.una.edu/pdavis/porarch.jpg

20 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Porella_ SPT_ls.jpg/150px-Porella_SPT_ls.jpg

21 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/ Porella_SPT.jpg/200px-Porella_SPT.jpg

22 http://cber.bio.waikato.ac.nz/courses/226/Liverworts/Liverworts_files/ image001.jpg

23 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Bryophyta _8.png/375px-Bryophyta_8.png

24 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Pellia_ epiphylla7_ies.jpg/685px-Pellia_epiphylla7_ies.jpg

25 http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/images/6/6f/Bryophyta-1.jpg

26 http://www.biology.duke.edu/bryology/LiToL/Images/ Morphological%20Diversity/Pallavicinia_subciliata.jpg

27 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/ Metzgeria_furcata_2005.04.02_15.29.56-p4020023.jpg/800px- Metzgeria_furcata_2005.04.02_15.29.56-p4020023.jpg

28 http://www.bubblesaquarium.com/images/home%20mid_ photo/NewPlants_Riccardia_chamedryfolia_Popup.jpg

29 http://www2.una.edu/pdavis/ricmul2.jpg

30 http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/program/ua2001/Cargill/ fossombronia-alata.jpg

31 http://www.naturefg.com/pages/a-plants/aneura%20pinguis.htm