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Key Facts About Crescent-cup liverwort

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Attributes of Crescent-cup liverwort

Lifespan

Perennial

Plant Type

Moss

Spread

1.2 cm

Leaf type

Semi-evergreen

Scientific Classification of Crescent-cup liverwort

Phylum

Hepatics

Class

Complex thalloid liverworts

Order

Lunulariales

Family

Lunulariaceae

Genus

Lunularia

Species

Crescent-cup liverwort

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Common liverwort

Common liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) Is a subtropical ground covering plant with forked branches that will grow to 10 cm long. It does not produce flowers nor seeds. Considered a weed in gardens and lawns, it forms a dense carpet over the ground and reproduces by spores. It is fire tolerant and has been useful in woodland restoration projects to help deter ground erosion.

Wide-nerved liverwort

The thalli are irregularly branched and are fairly large, growing to over 1 cm wide and several centimetres long. They are green, sometimes with a red or purple tinge. There are many long rhizoids on the underside of the thallus but no ventral scales.Pellia epiphylla is monoicous, with both male and female sex organs on the same thallus. The small male organs are scattered along the midrib while the female organs grow near the tip of the thallus and are surrounded by a flap. The plant produces spherical, greenish-black capsules which are borne on stalks known as setae. These are pale green and up to 5 cm long.

Great scented liverwort

Often found on damp rock structures, great scented liverwort prefers to grow where it has constant moisture without being soggy. It gets its common name for its faint odor of urine, which occurs because it soaks up nitrogen and sulfur from its habitat.

Small greasewort

Small greasewort (Aneura pinguis) is a unique plant to biologists because it is a species complex. This means that it is a distinct species that has significant genetic differences between individual plants. It gets the name "small greasewort" from the fact that it is one of the smaller members of the liverwort family. It is dioecious, meaning that individual specimens are either male or female.

Dumortier's liverwort

Dumortier's liverwort (Dumortiera hirsuta) is a hairy, flowerless thallus, a plant body that does not differentiate between leaves, stems, and other parts. It grows in patches or mats along rocks and soil near streams and rivers. This perennial, is believed to be one of only two species in its genus.

Purple-margined liverwort

The only species within the genus of Reboulia hemisphaerica, the purple-margined liverwort grows only during the winter when it can receive the required moisture and when competitive plants are dormant or absent. It's considered a very complex species, and it can have considerable variations in its reproductive makeup. Some plants may have both male and female organs on the same branch, while others may only have one or the other.

California perianth liverwort

The leaves of this species are pale green dorsally and have purple ascending margins and dark purple undersides. They also have thallus edges that tend to curl upward, exposing the dark underside when dry. The thalli are simple or somewhat sparingly (1-3 times) dichotomous, and 8 to 25 mm long. The ultimate segments are emarginated, obovate, obcordate, or broadly oblong, indistinctly areolate, and 4 to 12 mm in maximum width.

Lichenized

Lichenized is a family of fungi that exist as lichens. In other words, these fungi form communities along with bacteria or algae. You will find fungi of this family growing on rocks and trees in temperate climates around the world. They are easier to find in winter when many plants are in a dormant state.

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Crescent-cup liverwort

Lunularia cruciata

The main body of this odd-looking plant is the undifferentiated vegetative tissue called a thallus, which is characteristic to some algae, fungi, lichens, and liverwort. Crescent-cup liverwort is usually found in shaded and moist areas of the garden. When it doesn't have enough moisture, crescent-cup liverwort becomes yellowish.

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