| Asterella californica | |
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| Asterella californica female receptacles | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Marchantiophyta |
| Class: | Marchantiopsida |
| Order: | Marchantiales |
| Family: | Aytoniaceae |
| Genus: | Asterella |
| Species: | A. californica
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| Binomial name | |
| Asterella californica | |
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Asterella californica is a complex thallic liverwort in the phylum Marchantiophyta. A. californica often grows as colonies of flat rosettes of light green, rigid thalli, with undersides dark wine-red to nearly black. The receptacles are rounded, with four lobes each bearing a single sporangium sheathed by a white tattered skirt.[1] A. californica is dioecious with separate male plants often intermingled with female plants.[2] This species is found throughout California. See Distribution information below. Asterella californica is the commonest species of the three species of Asterella occurring in California;[3] the other two species are A. bolanderi and A. palmeri.[4]
- ^ Schofield, W.B. (2002). Field Guide to Liverwort Genera of Pacific North America. University of Washington Press: Global Forest Society. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-295-98194-9.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:6was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Haupt, Arthur, W. (1929). "Studies in Californian Hepaticae. I. Asterella californica". Botanical Gazette. 87 (2): 302–318. doi:10.1086/333935. JSTOR 2556462. S2CID 84645949.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Kellman, Ken; Doyle, Bill (2015). "California County Lists of Liverworts and Hornworts". California Native Plant Society Bryophyte Chapter.