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 flagella absent
Leaves lobed
Gemmae absent

 
Leaves and underleaves shallowly two-lobed, often with smaller teeth on the sides of the lobes; leaves concave or keeled, almost transversely inserted on stem; leaf surface smooth or papillose -Isotachis
Both 3-lobed and 2-lobed leaves present occurring on the stem; leaves plane or only mildly concave, clearly incubous; striations present on the leaf surface -Triandrophyllum  
     
   
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