Claim · model-written summary
The Geothallus blepharoplast resembles those of Riella and Sphaerocarpos.
- Taxon
- Geothallus tuberosusGeothallus tuberosust0
- Outcome
- blepharoplaste0
- Comparator
- Riella and Sphaerocarpose0
Verbatim
e0“the blepharoplast is similar to those reported for the other two genera of the Sphaerocarpales, Riella and Sphaerocarpos.”
t0“Geothallus tuberosus Campb.”
Title
Roy Curtiss Brown; Zane B. Carothers; Jeffery G. Duckett The Bryologist 1983. doi:10.2307/3242711
Other claims from this paper (3)
- Observation The three Sphaerocarpales genera have a blepharoplast with 20 to 24 microtubules narrowing to two in the shank.
- Observation Sphaerocarpales blepharoplast morphology most closely resembles that in Marchantiales.
- Recommendation Blepharoplast features are useful at the ordinal level in liverwort phylogeny.