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Sphaerocarpales           Jungermanniales          Metzgeriales           Marchantiales

Structures associated with sexual reproduction

antheridia and archegonia of Porella (prepared slides) porarch.jpg (68349 bytes) poranth.jpg (66560 bytes) click to enlarge
Sporophyte development in Marchantia (prepared slide) mar2ncm.jpg (106352 bytes)marelat.jpg (80232 bytes) click to enlarge
Sporophytes and associated structures hepaticsporophytecm.jpg (73387 bytes) hepaticsporophtyecm.jpg (28233 bytes)
hepaticcapsulecm.jpg (71306 bytes) ceplunsporo.jpg (52844 bytes)
lophetcapdehcm.jpg (10717 bytes) lophetcapsetacm.jpg (13903 bytes)

Many, but not all, liverworts have oil bodies.  While the function of oil bodies is not clearly known, they can be very useful characters when identifying species and genera.  The table below shows oil bodies in the leaf cells of several different species.

Hepatophyta - oil bodies

oilbod3.jpg (76748 bytes) oilbod1.jpg (51506 bytes) lejsha.jpg (67506 bytes)
Calypogeia peruviana Leucolejeunea clypeata Lejeunea sharpii
     
livercellcm.jpg (79180 bytes)    

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