| When a spore germinates, it produces a flat thalloid plant with a greasy blue-green color and odd morphology. |
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| Furthermore, logs provide persistent, exposed substrate where thalloid gametophytes can escape smothering by deciduous hardwood leaf litter. |
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| More complex thalloid compressions may display morphologies that are localized within a given phylum but convergent among phyla. |
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| Some of these plants are thalloid much like early liverworts, hornworts and mosses might have been. |
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| The leafy and simple thalloid liverworts have quadrilobed sporocytes, whereas the sporocytes of complex thalloids are generally unlobed. |
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| The spores germinate to produce minute protonemae, which start as filaments, can become thalloid, and can produce a few rhizoids. |
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| The simple thalloid and leafy liverwort clade is a morphologically diverse and speciose group of organisms. |
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| Membrane integrity, oxidative damage and chlorophyll fluorescence during dehydration of the thalloid liverwort Monoclea forsteri Hook. |
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| Genus Riccia L. Plants are thalloid, forming rosettes or loose, dichotomous patches. |
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| In this scenario, the land could have been populated by extremely simple thalloid or even filamentous gametophytes that produced gametes and zygotes. |
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