Liverwort

• Liverwort has a prostrate, flattened thallus.
• The small circular structures on the thallus are gemma cups which produce asexual gemmae – these are like a ‘bud’ that can detach from the parent liverwort and form a new plant;
• are found in deep shade, in moist soil.

ASPLENIACEAE

Pleurosorus rutifolius/subglandulosus -Blanket fern

• A small fern (<10 cm high);
• found mainly on the eastern side of Rocky Hill, when it is shaded by rock overhangs.

Indigenous plant names

For many more images of plants photographed on Kooringal’s Rocky Hill visit the Plants folder.
Images courtesy of Geoff Burrows