Plants of the Gila Wilderness

Presented in Association with the
Western New Mexico University Department of Natural Sciences

Frullania eboracensis Gottsche

Family: Jubulaceae

Status: Native

Synonyms:
None

Frullania eboracensis is a liverwort that is usually found on bark. It is often reddish-brown in color but can be green. It is medium-sized for a liverwort and looks like India ink markings when on light colored bark. It has entire leaf margins and ventral lobules that are distinctive and helmet shaped (galeate). The underleaves are bilobed (notched) and are less than twice the width of the stem.
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Frullania eboracensis, photomicrograph on bark, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, collected by R.D. Worthington at Eagle Creek in the Sacramento Mtns., May 11, 1996



Frullania eboracensis, photomicrograph of stem (stereoscope), photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, collected by R.D. Worthington at Eagle Creek in the Sacramento Mtns., May 11, 1996



Frullania eboracensis, photomicrograph of stem (compound scope), photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, collected by R.D. Worthington at Eagle Creek in the Sacramento Mtns., May 11, 1996



Frullania eboracensis, photomicrograph of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, collected by R.D. Worthington at Eagle Creek in the Sacramento Mtns., May 11, 1996



Frullania eboracensis, photomicrograph of ventral lobule, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, collected by R.D. Worthington at Eagle Creek in the Sacramento Mtns., May 11, 1996



Frullania eboracensis, photomicrograph of bilobed underleaf, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, collected by R.D. Worthington at Eagle Creek in the Sacramento Mtns., May 11, 1996


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