Status: Native
Synonyms:
None
The genus Fossombronia is easily recognized as simple thallose liverworts with a cabbage head appearance, ruffled margins, and bright purple rhizoids. We will need to find reproductive material including spores to identify this Fossombronia to species.
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Fossombronia sp., photo Karen Blisard & Russ Kleinman, Black Range, Emory Pass, October 13, 2011
Fossombronia sp., 3x macro wet, photo Karen Blisard & Russ Kleinman, Black Range, Emory Pass, October 13, 2011
Fossombronia sp., 40x photomicrograph wet, photo Karen Blisard & Russ Kleinman, Black Range, Emory Pass, October 13, 2011
Fossombronia sp., 100x photomicrograph of purple rhizoids, photo Karen Blisard & Russ Kleinman, Black Range, Emory Pass, October 13, 2011
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