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tasmanian liverworts - plagiochilacea
plagiochila circinalis (formerly 110908D)
1. Habit as epiphyte with leaf details
This has recently been identified for us as Plagiochila circinalis. Thanks to MR. species we have not been able to identify as yet.
Interestingly it had mature sporophytes in September, as had another species we discovered a few weeks earlier. P. fragmentissima.
 2. leaf cells |
 3. capsue walls |
 4. spore |
 5. elaters |
References
- Inoue, H. & Schuster, R.M., 1971, 'A Monograph of the New
Zealand and Tasmanian Plagiochilaceae', J. Hattori
Bot. Lab. 34:1-225, f.1-77 provides a key to Tasmanian
species
- Meagher, D, & Fuhrer, B., A Field Guide to the Mosses and
Allied Plants of Southern Australia, (ISBN 0 642 56828 6),
Flora of Australia Supplementary Series, Number 20 - Australian
Biological Resources Study/The Field Naturalists Club of Victoria,
2003