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Pleurozia
Sign in to savePleurozia is the only genus of liverworts in the family Pleuroziaceae, which is now classified in its own order Pleuroziales, but was previously included in a broader circumscription of the Jungermanniales. The genus includes twelve species, and as a whole is both physically distinctive and widely distributed.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 26 inbound references to Pleurozia, and connects out to liverwort, Jungermanniopsida and Marchantiopsida.
It is catalogued under topics including Liverwort genera, Pleuroziales and Taxonbars with multiple manual Wikidata items.
Vinony links it to 11 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Purple Spoonwort
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumMarchantiophyta
- ClassJungermanniopsida
- OrderPleuroziales
- FamilyPleuroziaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 74
- With media
- 40
- Family
- Pleuroziaceae
- Collections
- US, TENN, WTU, MEL, MU, MO
- Recorded in
- Philippines, United States, India, Australia, Papua New Guinea, China, Fiji, La RéUnion
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Pleuroziaceae
- Image
- Pleurozia purpurea36373 580 360.jpg
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- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Pleurozia
- Commons category
- Pleurozia
- taxon common name
- 紫叶苔属
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Taxonomy
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Pleurozia is the only genus of liverworts in the family Pleuroziaceae, which is now classified in its own order Pleuroziales, but was previously included in a broader circumscription of the Jungermanniales. The genus includes twelve species, and as a whole is both physically distinctive and widely distributed.
The lower leaf lobes of Pleurozia species are fused, forming a closed water sac covered by a movable lid similar in structure to those of the angiosperm genus Utricularia. These sacs were assumed to play a role in water storage, but a 2005 study on Pleurozia purpurea found that the sacs attract and trap ciliates, much in the same way as Utricularia. Observations of plants in situ also revealed a large number of trapped prey within the sacs, suggesting that the species in this genus obtain some benefit from a carnivorous habit. After Colura, this was the second report of zoophagy among the liverworts.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pleurozia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.