Marchantia berteroana
Liverwort at Booth, ACT
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| Marchantia berteroana | MichaelMulvaney | 2 Apr 2016 | |
| Marchantia sp. | KenT | 9 Mar 2016 |
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User's notes
This was one clump of plants, not sure how they are meant to be counted
1 comment
23 Mar 2016
There's a good chance that this is Marchantia berteroana. A couple of photos shows circular gemma cups, without which you'd be left wondering if this was Marchantia or Lunularia (which has crescent-shaped gemma cups). In this colony there are still some green, discoid gemmae present. These are vegetative propagules and may be splashed out of the cups by raindrops, just as happens with the 'eggs' in Cyathus (http://canberranaturemap.org/Community/Sightings/Details/2726664).
Location information
- Coordinates 149.001444-35.688333
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Booth, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 7 Mar 2016 09:19 AM Recorded on
- KenT Recorded by
Collections
- Lichens; Mosses & other Bryophytes Mosses, Liverworts & Hornworts KenT Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Marchantia berteroana
Species information
- Marchantia berteroana Scientific name
- Liverwort Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible