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

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.