Story: Liverworts and hornworts

New Zealand’s longest liverwort

New Zealand’s longest liverwort

New Zealand’s Schistochila appendiculata is the world’s longest leafy liverwort. It can grow to a metre or more in lowland forest.

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Maggy Wassilieff, 'Liverworts and hornworts - Liverworts', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/10687/new-zealands-longest-liverwort (accessed 8 June 2023)

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 24 Sep 2007