Sphaerocarpos

Sphaerocarpos is a genus of plants known as bottle liverworts. There are eight or nine species in this genus.^[3]

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 [ Micheli ][1] Boehm. ex Ludwig[2]
Species
See text

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