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).