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Frullania eboracensis
New York Scalewort is a small epiphytic liverwort, a non-flowering plant that grows flat on tree bark in damp, shaded woodland across eastern North America. It is not grown as a garden or houseplant, so care in the usual sense does not apply; it thrives in moist, shaded, humid places on mature tree trunks.
Frullania eboracensis, the New York scalewort, is a species of liverwort in the family Frullaniaceae. New York Scalewort can be distinguished from other species of scalewort by its morphology. In particular, the small size (leafy shoots only 0.8–1 mm. across), lower leaf lobes that are about as long as they are across, lower leaf lobes that are about one-third to one-half the size of upper leaf lobes, underleaves (0.15 mm. across) that are only a little wider than their stems (0.10 mm. across). The underleaves of New York Scalewort have toothless or nearly toothless lateral margins, and perianths that have smooth to slightly roughened keels along their sides (rather than tuberculate keels).
New York Scalewort is widely-distributed in eastern North America and adjacent areas of southern Canada. Habitats include tree bark, particularly trees on rocky bluffs, along wooded slopes, in upland and lowland woodlands, along streams and ponds, and in swamps. Additionally, they can be found on exposed tree roots, fallen tree logs, and planks of wooden fences in damp shaded places. New York Scalewort is found primarily on the bark of deciduous trees, including oak, maple, ash, elm, eastern red cedar, hackberry, cottonwood, beech, and musclewood. The presence of New York Scalewort is most obvious on trees with gray bark like red maple, beech, holly and some oaks. Usually, New York Scalewort is found on the tree trunks of natural, older, mature trees rather than branches or exposed root, or on younger or cultivated trees.
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