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
Leaf apices never lobed or notched
Leaves plane or convex

 
Shoots distinctly flattened or almost so; often with brown pigments; perianths two-lipped and laterally compressed or almost so; rhizoids along stem and underleaf bases Leptoscyphus  
Brownish pigmentation usually lacking; perianth mouth trilobed; rhizoids confined to the bases of underleaves
     
   
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