Conocephalum salebrosum
Marchantiophyta
Conocephalum salebrosum (Conocephalaceae)
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Distinguishing Features
Conocephalum conicum is the largest complex thallus liverwort in our region, in addition to being one of the most common. It tends to thrive in perpetually seeping or wet environments, where it luxuriates as elongate, scrambling irregularly-branched, snakeskin-like thallus segments to 10+ cm long and more than 1 cm wide. Up close, the pores of the thallus are simple and the air chambers are visibly delimited as convex diamonds. Archegonia and sporophyte-bearing carpocephala, when present, take 18 months to develop in to towering structures that can exceed 10 cm tall at the tips of female plants, while the antheridia are produced in sessile clusters on seperate male plants.
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