Marchantia quadrata is a species of liverwort, a simple non-flowering plant that grows as a flat, green, leaf-like structure (thallus) typically found on damp rocks and soil along stream banks in the Northern Hemisphere. The species was originally classified in its own genus Preissia due to its distinctive features, including larger spores and lack of the specialised cup-like reproductive structures common in other liverworts, but genetic studies have shown it belongs within the genus Marchantia. Like most liverworts, it reproduces both sexually, through separate male and female plants that produce umbrella-like reproductive structures, and through regeneration from fragments.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Narrow Mushroom-headed Liverwort being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Reboulia hemisphaerica
- Marchantia inflexa
- Marchantia paleacea
- Asterella australis
- Asterella tenella
- Clevea hyalina
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Marchantiophyta
- Class
- Marchantiopsida
- Order
- Marchantiales
- Family
- Marchantiaceae
- Genus
- Marchantia
- Species
- Marchantia quadrata
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