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Descriptor English: Hepatophyta
Descriptor Spanish: Hepatophyta
Descriptor Hepatophyta
Entry term(s) Marchantiophyta
hepáticas (briófitas)
Scope note: División vegetal. Son plantas simples que carecen de tejido vascular y poseen órganos rudimentarios tipo raíces (rizoides). Como los MUSGOS, las hepáticas presentan alternancia de las generaciones entre formas con gametos haploides (gametofitas) y formas con esporas diploides (esporofitas).
Descriptor Portuguese: Hepatófitas
Descriptor French: Hepatophyta
Entry term(s): Bazzania
Bazzanias
Hepatophytas
Jungermanniae
Liverwort
Liverworts
Marchantiae
Tree number(s): B01.875.800.575.462
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D035926
Scope note: 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).
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
AH anatomy & histology
CH chemistry
CL classification
CY cytology
DE drug effects
EM embryology
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
GE genetics
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PH physiology
PO poisoning
PS parasitology
RE radiation effects
TO toxicity
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 2003
History Note: 2003
DeCS ID: 37246
Unique ID: D035926
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Date Established: 2003/01/01
Date of Entry: 2002/07/03
Revision Date: 2015/06/22
Hepatophyta - Preferred
Concept UI M0408742
Scope note 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).
Preferred term Hepatophyta
Entry term(s) Hepatophytas
Liverwort
Liverworts
Marchantiae - Narrower
Concept UI M0408744
Scope note A plant subclass of Hepatophyta.
Preferred term Marchantiae
Bazzania - Narrower
Concept UI M0471019
Scope note A plant genus of the family Lepidoziaceae, order Jungermanniales, subclass JUNGERMANNIAE.
Preferred term Bazzania
Entry term(s) Bazzanias
Jungermanniae - Narrower
Concept UI M0408743
Scope note A plant subclass of Hepatophyta.
Preferred term Jungermanniae



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