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 rounded or crenulate
 
Shoots prostrate, with at least some attachment to substrate by rhizoids along the ventral side of the stem  
Shoots erect, occasionally prostrate, or hanging off substrate; always attached to substrate at the base
     
   
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