Key to Tasmanian Dicots
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Liverworts
Plants with obvious leaves
Leaves not spirally arranged
Leaves without ventral sacs
Leaves not complcate-bilobed or folded
Leaf toothed, lobed or spine-like but shape evident
Underleaves absent
Stems without papillae
Leaves round or lobed
Leaves lobed, toothed or with spine-like hairs
Leaves margins without teeth, or teeth not spine-like
Plant not thread-like
Leaf cells not bulging in a dome-like fashion
Oil bodies dark brown 

 
Outer cells of stems not differentiated from inner cells (a stem section required to see this); sporophyte develops from marsupium at stem base Marsupidium surculosum  
Stem with a distinctive cortical layer of small thick-walled cells; sporophyte develops in a marsupium at the shoot tip Tylimanthus
     
   
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