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Many thanks to Blanka Shaw for help with this page!Marchantia polymorpha, a complex thalloid liverwort in the Marchantiaceae. Orange Co., NC 30 May 2008 The "umbrellas" are gametophytic structures bearing male gametangia (antheridia), called antheridiophores. | |
Marchantia polymorpha Orange Co., NC 30 May 2008 | |
Dumortiera hirsuta (Sw.) Nees., another complex thalloid liverwort in the Marchantiaceae. Bottomland forest stream bank in Jones Co., NC 21 Oct 2007 | |
Dumortiera hirsuta (Sw.) Nees. Bottomland forest stream bank in Jones Co., NC 21 Oct 2007 Close-up with young archegoniophore. | |
Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.
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