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Sphaerocarpos
A female Sphaerocarpos texanus next to a US quarter for scale
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Marchantiophyta
Class:	Marchantiopsida
Order:	Sphaerocarpales
Family:	Sphaerocarpaceae
Genus:	Sphaerocarpos Boehm. ex Ludwig
Species
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Sphaerocarpos is a genus of plants known as bottle liverworts. There are eight or nine species in this genus.

Classification

Sphaerocarpos is one of two extant genera in the family Sphaerocarpaceae. The following species are currently recognized:

• Sphaerocarpos cristatus
• Sphaerocarpos donnelli
• Sphaerocarpos drewiae
• Sphaerocarpos hians
• Sphaerocarpos michelii
• Sphaerocarpos muccilloi
• Sphaerocarpos stipitatus
• Sphaerocarpos texanus

References

1. Micheli, P. A. (1729). Nova Plantarum Genera juxta Tournefortii methodum disposita. Florence. p. 4, plate iii.
2. Boehmer, G. R. (1760). Ludwig, C. G. (ed.). Definitiones Generum Plantarum (3rd ed.). p. 501.
3. Schuster, Rudolf M. (1992). The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America. Vol. V. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History. pp. 811–813. ISBN 0-914868-20-9.

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