Blasia
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Blasia pusilla | ||||||||||||||
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"Blasia pusilla" from Strasburger's Lehrbuch der Botanik für Hochschulen, 1900
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Blasia pusilla [Micheli] L. |
Blasia pusilla is the only species in the liverwort genus Blasia. It is distinguished from Cavicularia by the presence of a collar around the base of the sporophyte capsule, and a scattered arrangement of sperm-producing antheridia.