leafy liverwort การใช้

• The species is unique among the leafy liverworts in the extreme reduction of its lateral leaves.
• Leafy liverworts also differ from most mosses in that their leaves never have a costa and may bear marginal cilia.
• While these include some thallose liverworts, with liver-shaped thalli, most are leafy liverworts which can be confused with mosses and filmy ferns.
• Leafy liverworts also differ from most ( but not all ) mosses in that their leaves never have a cilia ( very rare in mosses ).
• Specimens were captured by sweeping low lying vegetation or during diurnal flight along a shaded seepage in a Douglas fir western red cedar forest where leafy liverworts grew.