Guide to Liverworts of Oregon: Key to Cephalozia 1

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1a plants leafy > 3b leaves not divided, not ciliate > 6b oil bodies solitary/absent > 13b oil bodies absent > 16a underleaves absent/small > 17a plants small > Cephalozia 1

1a plants leafy > 3b leaves not divided, not ciliate > 6a oil bodies 2+ or unknown > 7b no small dorsal lobe > 10a succubous > 11a anisophyllous > 12b leaves lobed > 37b if rhizoids red, stems red > 38b shoots mostly <0.5 mm wide > 47b underleaves inconspicuous > 50b leaves spreading or remote > 52b leaves oblique to horizontal > 54a plant pellucid > Cephalozia 1

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NOTE: Many species of Cephalozia have recently been treated as Fuscocephaloziopsis, as also Pleurocladula and Schofieldia (Stotler and Crandall-Stotler 2017). See SPECIES INDEX for synonymy.

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Cephalozia otaruensis, Coos Co., Oregon. DHW m0778

1a Leaves mostly bilobed more than 0.5 their length; leaf insertion oblique to subtransverse, mostly little decurrent; upper surface of stem often lacking a leaf-free strip of cells, the antical margin inserted adjacent to the stem midline.
(COUPLET 2 -Ceplahozia s.s.)

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Cephalozia lunulifolia, N. Myrtle Creek, Douglas Co., Oregon. DHW 8709

1b Leaves mostly bilobed less than 0.5 their length; leaf insertion oblique to horizontal, somewhat to distinctly decurrent; upper surface of stem always with two uninterrupted rows of cells that are not part of a leaf.
(COUPLET 7 - Fuscocephaloziopsis segregate)

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