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 attached to substrate at base
Leaves not appressed to stem
Stolons absent
Plants forming low turfs
Sexual organs developing from the stem base
 

Plants small (leaves <1mm wide); leaf cells with distinct trigones Jackiella  
Plants robust (leaves 1-2mm wide), leaf cells without trigones or trigones small  Marsupidium surculosum
     
   
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