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Large order of chiefly tropical liverworts
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jungermanniales
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Jungermanniales \Jungermanniales\ prop. n. A large order of chiefly tropical liverworts. Syn: order Jungermanniales .
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Jungermanniales is the largest order of liverworts . They are distinctive among the liverworts for having thin leaf -like flaps on either side of the stem. Most other liverworts are thalloid , with no leaves.
Usage examples of jungermanniales.
The Anthocerotales, on the other hand, stand in an isolated position, and recent researches have served to emphasize this rather than to confirm the relationship with the Jungermanniales suggested by Leitgeb.
The lower members of the Jungermanniales are also thalloid, but the thallus never has the complicated structure characteristic of the Marchantiales, and progress is in the direction of the differentiation of the plant into stem and leaf.
The Marchantiales form an obviously natural evolutionary group, and the same is probably true of the Jungermanniales, although in neither case can the partial lines of progression within the main groups be said to be quite clear.