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Crescent-cup Liverwort

Mosses and Liverworts

Lunularia is a genus of liverworts whose only species is Lunularia cruciata, the crescent-cup liverwort. The genus is sometimes placed in its own order, Lunulariales, or classified within Marchantiales depending on the taxonomic scheme used. Its name comes from the Latin luna, meaning moon, for the distinctive moon-shaped gemma cups it bears, crescent-shaped structures holding disc-like reproductive bodies not found in other thalloid liverworts.

Facts
Classification
Diet
Photosynthetic Autotroph 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 2
Identification
Distinguishing Appearance
Large, dichotomously branched green thalli with crescent shaped gemma cups containing disc-like gemmae 1
Scientific Name
Lunularia cruciata 1
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Plantae, Taxa
Source Wikidata: Crescent-cup Liverwort
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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Lunularia
  • Lead paragraph
    Lunularia is a genus of liverworts whose only species is Lunularia cruciata, the crescent-cup liverwort.
  • Description section
    Lunularia cruciata grows large, dichotomously branched green thalli with crescent shaped gemma cups containing disc-like gemmae.
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2. GBIF Species API
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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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Wikidata: Crescent-cup Liverwort
  • Wikidata Q1474234, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Child Taxon Of: Plantae, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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