Key to Tasmanian Dicots
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Liverworts
Plants thallose
Thallus not leafy
Thallus more than one cell thick
Numerous chloroplast per cell
Thallus without air pores
Midrib present
Plants on soil or rotten logs
Plants sterile
Thallus margins not toothed


 

Thallus heavily lobed in a palmate fashion; plants on an erect stalk and totally green - Hymenophyton
   
Thallus not heavily lobed; plants prostrate and may have rose-pink tinges - PALLAVICINIACEAE
     
   
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