Key to Tasmanian Dicots
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Liverworts
Plants thallose
Plant body not leafy
Thallus more than one cell thick
Numerous chloroplast per cell
Thallus with surface air pores
Gemmae cups absent
Upper thallus firm and green


 
Upper thallus surface furrowed or at least V-shaped at apex; sporophytes developing within thallus and not visible, except at maturity in some species. RICCIACEAE
     
Upper thallus surface flat without furrows; sporophytes developing outside thallus
     
   
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