Guide to Liverworts of Oregon: Key to Lophozia 16

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Lophozia 1b oil bodies less than 12 per cell > Lophozia 5b leaves bilobed > Lophozia 8b underleaves absent > Lophozia 12b dioicous > Lophozia 14b gemmae greenish > Lophozia 16


Lophozia ascendens, Wilson Creek, British Columbia, Canada. F.A. MacFadden 6678 (MO).


16a Plants erect or suberect, mostly < 6mm high; leaves relatively narrow, typically 0.6 to 0.8 as wide as long, with narrow, hornlike lobes
Lophozia ascendens


Lophozia ventricosa, Butte Creek Falls, Linn Co., Oregon. DHW m1853a.


16b Plants prostrate (except shoot tips and where crowded); shoots usually 10 mm or more long; leaves 0.75 to 1.1 as wide as long, with rather broad lobes and shallow sinuses
Lophozia ventricosa s.l.


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