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 not dark brown
Leaves with over two lobes or with numerous teeth or both
 







Shoot tips curved over like a walking stick; leaf cells without trigones or trigones small; sporophyte arising from base of stem (Calyptrocolea falcata) Calyptrocolea  



Shoot tips not as curved, mostly straight; trigones mostly prominent; sporophyte arising from end of shoot, or on short lateral or ventral branches
     
   
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