Key to Tasmanian Dicots
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Liverworts
Plants with obvious leaves
Leaves not spirally arranged
Leaves without ventral sacs
Leaves not complicate-bilobed or folded
Leaf toothed, lobed or spine-like but shape evident
Underleaves present
Leaves incubous
Most stem leaves with 4 lobes
Leaves clearly incubous or nearly transversely inserted
Leaves clearly incubous

 
Stems with a layer of enlarged cells;  plants usually minute; often prostrate and creeping  -Telaranea
Stems normal, without a layer of enlarged cells; plants small to medium sized; sometimes prostrate more often in loose wefts in well developed specimens Lepidozia  
     
   
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