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
Shoots hardly curved at apex; trigones prominent
 

Leaves with two or more very large claw-like teeth at the apex following the curvature of the margin;  the teeth bases (particularly of the apical tooth) extremely wide relative to leaf -Acrochila  
Teeth when present not as large relative to the leaf or if teeth are wide-based then not claw-like -Plagiochila
     
   
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