Summary ²

Lunularia cruciata, the crescent-cup liverwort, is a liverwort of order Lunulariales, and the only species in the genus Lunularia and family Lunulariaceae. The name, from Latin luna, moon, refers to the moon-shaped gemmacups.

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1. (c) Geoffrey Cox, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Geoffrey Cox
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunularia_cruciata

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