Gemmae Cups and Gemmae on a Liverwort

Gemmae Cups and Gemmae on a Liverwort gemmae cups IT was noticed that gemma-cups in the New Zealand liverwort Marchantia berteroana L and L were not produced when the pots were gemmae cup Gemmae are the specialized structures produced in liverworts These are 1 Non-green, multi-cellular, asexual buds which develop in gemma cups 2

gemmae cup The saucer is a gemma cup and the lentil-shaped objects are gemmae Gemmae allow the plant to reproduce asexually Each gemma is capable of growing into a new

gemma cups A small receptacle or cup on upper surface of bryophytes in which gemmae are produced from which they are splashed out of and dispersed by rain drops  cup-like structures on their leafy thalli which contain multicellular propagules called gemmae When rain fills the gemmae cups, mature gemmae are released