Hepatophyta

Synonyms

Bazzania

Bazzanias

Hepatophytas

Jungermanniae

Liverwort

Liverworts

Marchantiae

A plant division. They are simple plants that lack vascular tissue and possess rudimentary rootlike organs (rhizoids). Like MOSSES, liverworts have alternation of generations between haploid gamete-bearing forms (gametophytes) and diploid spore-bearing forms (sporophytes).