Conocephalum salebrosum

Phylum: Marchantiophyta

Family: Conocephalaceae

Genus: Conocephalum

Scientific Name: Conocephalum salebrosum Szweyk., Buczk. & Odrzyk.

Common Name	Great Scented Liverwort
Frequency	Frequent

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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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c, and se BC.

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Relevant Literature

Godfrey, J.D. (1977). Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of southwestern British Columbia . [Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia]. UBC cIRcle.
Hong, W. S. (2007). Scapania. In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Eds.), Flora of North America North of Mexico (Vol. 3) . Oxford University Press.
Wagner, D. H. (2013). Guide to the liverworts of Oregon: Scapania undulata . Oregon State University Herbarium.