Guide to Liverworts of Oregon: Key to Genera 12

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1b plants leafy > 3b leaves not divided, not ciliate > 6a oil bodies 2+ or unknown > 7b no small dorsal lobe > 10a succubous > 11a anisophyllous > 12


Left: Jungermannia rubra (juvenile shoot), Lane Co., Oregon. DHW 7761. Right: Gyrothyra underwoodiana, South Slough, Coos Co., Oregon. DHW m2428a.


12a Leaves round to ovate, some species with occasional leaves retuse or emarginate, some withwavy or minutely dentate margins
(Couplet 28)


Left: Chiloscyphus coadunatus, Coos Co., Oregon. DHW 9330. Right: Anastrophyllum minutum, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Berg B091.


12b Leaves regularly lobed (leaf tip notched); the sinus (notch) between the lobes shallow to deep;the leaf lobes round to pointed, equal to quite unequal
(Couplet 37)


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