BBC Wildlife Magazine

REACH FOR THE STARS STAR-HEADED LIVERWORT

HIS MONTH, THE STAR-HEADED liverwort () is at the peak of its reproductive cycle. For most of its life, the species is a thin, flat-lobed ribbon of green about 1-1.5cm wide. The thallus (plant body) hugs anything on which it grows – it is a lumpy carpet of flattened fingers quietly getting on with photosynthesising.

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