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 never present
Upper thallus firm and green
Upper thallus flat and sporophytes external
Thallus typically less than 6 mm wide


 
Side branching originating from the underside of thallus; capsule a black spherical pouch at thallus apex. Targonia
     
Side branching from margins or upper thallus surface; capsules forming in umbrella-like structures. AYTONIACEAE
     
   
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