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Liverworts
Plants with obvious leaves
Leaves not spirally arranged
Leaves with ventral sacs or pouches
Ventral sacs part of leaf or attached to stem
Ventral sacs part of leaf
Underleaves absent

Rhizoids absent or when present only arising from the ventral sacs (lobules); plants of various habitats but rarely growing on the leaves of other plants -Radula  
Rhizoids present, arising from the position where underleaves would normally be; plants mostly growing in rainforest on the leaves of other plants (epiphyllous) Cololejeunea
     
   
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