Gametophyte in the form of frondose or thallus which is dorsiventral, thin, soft, dichotomous branching, dark green to yellowish green and arranged overlapping.
Dorsal have female sexual reproductive organs or archegonia that sit on stalks at the terminal and hairs on the upper surface of the receptacle. The ventral thallus has rhizoids.
Dumortier's liverwort colonizes slopes and vertical moist, shady soils, soil or rock substrates on the outer cave walls, granite surfaces with dripping water near waterfalls and banks of swift streams, rocks below the surface of the water.
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Marchantiophyta
Class: Marchantiopsida
Order: Marchantiales
Family: Dumortieraceae
Genus: Dumortiera
Species: Dumortiera hirsuta
Varities: Dumortiera hirsuta var. hirsuta, Dumortiera hirsuta var. nepalensis
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