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Kōrero: Liverworts and hornworts

New Zealand’s longest liverwort

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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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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Maggy Wassilieff, Liverworts and hornworts – Liverworts, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/10687/new-zealands-longest-liverwort (accessed 5 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.