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
Brownish pigmentation usually lacking

 
Both sides of underleaves usually strongly continuous with (joined to) the leaves; sex organs always on short specialized side shoots; male sex organs on narrow leafless branches; leaf cells often with large trigones -Heteroscyphus  
Only one side of the underleaves joined to a leaf, if joined to leaves on both sides then only weakly so; sex organs mostly or all on unspecialized leafy shoots; leaf cells with small to medium trigones or without trigones
     
   
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