Radula voluta

(Radula voluta)

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Description

Usually sterile liverwort, forming small, rarely extended, prostrate and flat, thin, pale yellow-green (in deep shade purer green) patches, occasionally as scattered individuals. Shoots robust but delicate and flaccid. Leaves very fragile and soft-textured (brittle and easily fragmenting in dry material), flaccid, slightly undulate, contiguous to slightly imbricate. Lobe nearly plane and horizontally spreading, broadly ovate and somewhat falcate. Lobule large, obliquely subquadrate-rotundate, strikingly undulate (Schuster 1980).

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Hepaticophyta
Class: Jungermanniopsida
Order:Porellales
Family:Radulaceae
Genus:Radula
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