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 succubous
Leaves entire
Leaves made up of many cells
Leaves concave
Leaves one cell thick throughout

 

Plants with stolons; underleaves inconspicuous and vestigial, appressed to stem Hepatostolonophora  
Plants without stolons; underleaves visible (rarely vestigial) and concave
     
   
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