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Stock photo Color enhanced Scanning Electron Micrograph of the liverwort species Marchantia polymorphia, showing gemma cup

Most taxa of the genus Marchantia L produce multicellular gemmae within gemma cups They are discoid bodies with two notches

gemma cup Definition 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

gemmae cup gemma cup, is more likely to determine when gemma initiation ceases Each gemma in gemma cups grows to a thallus, on which more gemma cups are