Marchantia chenopodaL.

WFO wfo-0001198036 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Marchantia chenopoda, photographed by ritirene
fig. a ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-14 / obs. 169034664
Marchantia chenopoda, photographed by ritirene
fig. b ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164659869
Marchantia chenopoda, photographed by Serenella Linares
fig. c Serenella Linares, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 141398367
Marchantia chenopoda, photographed by ritirene
fig. d ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169034677
Marchantia chenopoda, photographed by Serenella Linares
fig. e Serenella Linares, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 141398379
Marchantia chenopoda, photographed by Serenella Linares
fig. f Serenella Linares, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 141398402
Marchantia chenopoda, photographed by Serenella Linares
fig. g Serenella Linares, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 141398390

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Where it actually grows measured, from 32 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 10.0 °C 17.5 °C 19.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 20.1 °C 25.5 °C 29.4 °C
Annual rainfall 1,857 mm 3,041 mm 3,735 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 235 mm 335 mm 538 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 32 research-grade observations of Marchantia chenopoda that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 22 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Chlamidium indicum Corda
  • Cyathophora mexicana (Steph.) Underw.
  • Grimaldia peruviana Nees & Mont.
  • Grimaldia swartzii (Lehm. & Lindenb.) Bisch.
  • Marchantia anapodocarpos Neck.
  • Marchantia bescherellei Steph.
  • Marchantia brasiliensis Lehm. & Lindenb.
  • Marchantia cartilaginea Lehm. & Lindenb.
  • Marchantia chenopoda var. cartilaginea (Lehm. & Lindenb.) Schiffn.
  • Marchantia chenopoda var. chenopoda
  • Marchantia colombica Steph.
  • Marchantia dillenii Lindb.
  • Marchantia ecuadorensis S.W.Arnell
  • Marchantia flabellata Hampe
  • Marchantia martinicensis Sieber ex Bisch.
  • Marchantia notarisii Lehm.
  • Marchantia peruviana (Nees & Mont.) Mont.
  • Marchantia pittieri Steph.
  • Marchantia swartzii Lehm. & Lindenb.
  • Plagiochasma bolivianum Steph.
  • Preissia barbata Herzog
  • Preissia mexicana Steph.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.