Leiosporoceros
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Anthocerotophyta |
| Class: | Leiosporocerotopsida Stotler & Crand.-Stotl. emend Duff |
| Order: | Leiosporocerotales Hässel[2] |
| Family: | Leiosporocerotaceae Hässel[1] |
| Genus: | Leiosporoceros Hässel[1] |
| Species: | L. dussii
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| Binomial name | |
| Leiosporoceros dussii (Steph.) Hässel
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Leiosporoceros dussii is the only species in the hornwort genus Leiosporoceros. The species is placed in a separate family, order, and class for being "genetically and morphologically distinct from all other hornwort lineages."[3] Cladistic analysis of genetic data supports a position at the very base of the hornwort clade.[4] Physical characteristics that distinguish the group include unusually small spores that are monolete and unornamented. Additionally, there are unique strands of Nostoc (cyanobacteria) that grow inside the plant parallel with its direction of growth. Unlike other hornworts with symbiotic cyanobacteria that enters through mucilage clefts, the mucilage clefts in Leiosporoceros is only present in young plants and then closes permanently once the cyanobacterial colonies have been established. Also mycorrhiza and pyrenoids are absent.[5][6] Male plants have been found in Panama.[2]
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References
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- ^ a b Hässel de Menéndez, Gabriela G. (1988). "A proposal for a new classification of the genera within the Anthocerotophyta". Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory. 64: 71–86.
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- PMID 31645766.
- ^ Hornwort pyrenoids, carbon-concentrating structures, evolved and were lost at least five times during the last 100 million years
- ^ Advances in understanding of mycorrhizal-like associations in bryophytes
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