''Bazzania trilobata'', the greater whipwort or threelobed bazzania, is a species of

liverwort Liverworts are a group of non-vascular land plants forming the division Marchantiophyta (). They may also be referred to as hepatics. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry ...

in the

Lepidoziaceae Lepidoziaceae is a Family (biology), family of leafy liverworts. It is a group of small plants that are widely distributed. Most of the species of this family are found in tropical regions. The main characteristics of the family: 1. oil body, ...

family. It grows in the

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temperate In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes (approximately 23.5° to 66.5° N/S of the Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth. These zones generally have wider temperature ran ...

zone.

Anatomy

Leafy liverworts have three rows of small leaves, two lateral in one plane and one ventral, differing from mosses which have small leaves that are usually in more than three rows around the stem. The leaves of leafy liverworts are often dissected or lobed.(Glime 1993) It is one of the largest leafy liverworts.

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