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
Only one side of underleaves joined to leaves


 

Teeth at leaf apices irregular and fragile, often breaking off, giving the leaves a ragged appearance; leaves with a rainbow sheen due to bulging cells -Leptophyllopsis  
Leaves without such apical teeth; leaf surface without a rainbow sheen as above Chiloscyphus
     
   
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