Guide to Liverworts of Oregon: Key to Riccia 6

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West end of Rooster Rock State Park, Multnomah Co., Oregon. N. Otting field photo, 16 October 2017. Note both red (male) and green (female) phenotypes. Also: Equisetum gametophyte (E. hyemale?) with young sporophytes.


6aa Air chambers barely open on upper surface; gray green to purplish red; dioicous; distal surface of spores vermiculate.
Riccia frostii


Riccia crystalina Frye & Clark 1937, p. 35.


6ab Upper surface smooth; blue green; monoicous; distal surface of spores reticulate.
Riccia crystallina


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