Marchantian.
/mɑːˈkantɪə/, U.S. /mɑrˈʃæn(t)iə/ Botany.
(In form Marchantia) a genus of liverworts; (also marchantia) a liverwort of this genus, esp. M. polymorpha, one of the most representative liverworts and the one to which the name was first applied.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) II. 1137.
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1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 1992/2 Marchantia, in botany, a genus of the cryptogamia clan, the corolla of which is monopetalous, turbinated, and shorter than the cup.
1771 J. Robertson Jrnl. 10 June in D. M. Henderson & J. H. Dickson Naturalist in Highlands (1994) vi. 160 The following plants are generally found in such cold springs, viz. Hairy Kidney-wort, Mountain Willow Herb,..Lesser Stitchwort variety & Marsh Bryum, & Common Marchantia.
1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 54 Those who regard them in that light have naturally taken the imbedded oblong antheridia of Marchantia..for anthers.
1861 H. Macmillan Footnotes from Nature 51 The most interesting of all the scale-mosses is the common marchantia or liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha).
1958 New Biol. 27 87 Marchantia is thus the original ‘liverwort’ and the name was later extended to include the whole class of plants to which it belongs.
1992 M. Ingrouille Diversity & Evol. Land Plants 106 In Marchantia the archegonia and antheridia are raised on upright umbrella- or mushroom-shaped projections of the thallus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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