Kingdom Plantae Order Jungermanniales Scientific name Lepidozia Rank Genus | Division Marchantiophyta Family Lepidoziaceae Higher classification Lepidoziaceae | |
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Similar Liverworts, Lepidozia reptans, Lepidoziaceae, Bazzania, Calypogeia | ||
Lepidozia is a genus of liverwort in family Lepidoziaceae. It was first proposed by Dumortier in 1835.
Lepidozia is encompassed within the informal group: leafy II. This bright grass-green liverwort prefers old bark surfaces on the lower trunks of redwoods in Humboldt County, CA. It has pinnate branching, incubous leaf insertion, as well as leaves and underleaves that are 3-4 lobed and divded <0.5 of their length.
It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete):
References
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