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
Leaves of main stems with less than 3 lobes or unlobed
Leaves lobed or not, if lobed not to the base

 
Ventral side of stem with flagella-like branches (may need close examination as flagella may not be well-developed in specimens adpressed on substrate); shoots with obvious Y-branching  
Ventral side of stem without flagella-like branches; branching not obviously dichotomous
     
   
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