| Setaphyta | |
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| A mosaic of liverworts and mosses | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Setaphyta |
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The Setaphyta are a clade within the Bryophyta which includes Marchantiophytina (liverworts) and Bryophytina (mosses). Anthocerotophytina (hornworts) are excluded.[1][2] A 2018 study found through molecular sequencing that liverworts are more closely related to mosses than hornworts, with the implication that liverworts were not among the first species to colonize land.[3]
- ^ Puttick, Mark N.; et al. (March 2018). "The Interrelationships of Land Plants and the Nature of the Ancestral Embryophyte". Current Biology. 28 (5): 733–745.e2. Bibcode:2018CBio...28E.733P. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.063. hdl:1983/ad32d4da-6cb3-4ed6-add2-2415f81b46da. PMID 29456145. S2CID 3269165.
- ^ Sousa, Filipe; Civáň, Peter; Brazão, João; Foster, Peter G.; Cox, Cymon J. (28 April 2020). "The mitochondrial phylogeny of land plants shows support for Setaphyta under composition-heterogeneous substitution models". PeerJ. 8: e8995. doi:10.7717/peerj.8995. PMC 7194085. PMID 32377448.
- ^ Nannan, Zhang (2 March 2018). "Setaphyta：A New Family Tree Given to Plants----Chinese Academy of Sciences". english.cas.cn. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 July 2022.