Blasiales Temporal range: Late Carboniferous–Recent |
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"Blasia pusilla" from Strasburger's Lehrbuch der Botanik für Hochschulen, 1900 | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Division: | Marchantiophyta |
Class: | Marchantiopsida |
Order: |
Blasiales (Schuster) 1966 Stotler & Crandall-Stotler 2000 |
Families | |
Blasiales is an order of liverworts with a single living family and two species. The order has traditionally been classified among the Metzgeriales, but molecular cladistics suggests a placement at the base of the Marchantiopsida.