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 toothed or lobed
Leaves large enough to see with a hand lens

 
Stems dark and densely covered with pale leaf-like protuberances (paraphylls); leaves and underleaves 2-lobed (the underleaves usually extra small teeth on the lobes) Chandonanthus squarrosus  
Stems without paraphylls; leaves variously lobed
     
   
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