Key to Tasmanian Dicots
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Liverworts
Plants with obvious leaves
Leaves not spirally arranged
Leaves without ventral sacs
Leaves complicate-bilobed, folded, or keeled
Underleaves absent
Rhizoids, if present, scattered along stem underside and not in bundles
 

Leaves unequally bilobed, the dorsal lobe being much smaller; leaves with vitta (band of enlarged cells appearing like a nerve); cells walls without trigones Diplophyllum  
Leaves folded but dorsal lobes almost as large as the ventral; leaves without vitta; cell walls with large trigones -Paraschistochila
     
   
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