Liverwort at Kowen, ACT
Identification history
| Riccia sp. (genus) | 23 Mar 2020 | Heino1 | ||
| Riccia sp. (genus) | 20 Mar 2020 | KenT | ||
| Unidentified | 20 Mar 2020 | JaneR |
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User's notes
Several clumps on wet muds and moist organic soils in amongst boulders around a non-flowing backwater, One phot shows he plant underwater (very shallow) and bubbles forming on frond, from photosynthesis.
4 comments
KenT
wrote:
21 Mar 2020
Have you considered Riccia fluitans? Or it could be another specimen of the images shown in sighting 4253138
Heino1
wrote:
23 Mar 2020
From Chris Cargill: Definitely not Riccia fluitans. We don’t have Riccia fluitans in Australia. It will either be Riccia multifida or Riccia duplex.
KenT
wrote:
23 Mar 2020
Interesting, Riccia fluitans is listed on some Australian websites as being for sale in Australia as part of the aquarium plant trade. Could an aquarium discard potentially lead to the establishment of this species in Australia?
Heino1
wrote:
24 Mar 2020
Question is: Are they selling real fluitans or some local fluitans-like species?
Location information
- Coordinates 149.247208-35.326114
- Altitude 572.9m
- Maps Molonglo Gorge
- Places Kowen, ACT
Sighting information
- 101 - 1,000 Abundance
- 20 Mar 2020 04:37 PM Recorded on
- JaneR Recorded by
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Collections
Lichens; Mosses & other Bryophytes Mosses, Liverworts & Hornworts JaneR
Species information
- Riccia sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Liverwort Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 900.56m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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