Haplomitrium Nees

 Name: Haplomitrium Nees

Common name:  n/a
Family:  Haplomitriaceae

Collection Date: 

Habitat: On moist surface of small rock, near Chagrin River

Location: South Chagrin Reservation

Description: Flattened, light green mat of moss

 Collector: Janie Lawson

Key used: Conard, H.S. and P.L. Redfearn, Jr. 1979. How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, Boston, Mass.

Keying Steps:

Introduction Key pg. 19

1b. Plant thalloid, cells isodiametric, rhizoids unicellular…Class II Hepaticae

Key to the Families/Genera of Marchantiophyta

4b. Plant thalloid or leafy with more than one chloroplast per cell…5

5a. Plant slightly flattened with distinct stem and leaf…8

8b. Plant having archegonia at end of thallus, without developing into sporophyte…9

9b. Rhizoids absent…10

10b. Leaves unlobes…Calobryales

Key to Family Calobryales

Haplomitriaceae constitutes the sole family of the Haplomitriales (= Calobryales), with Haplomitrium Nees representing the sole extant genus of the family.

Links: http://www.biology.duke.edu/bryology/LiToL/Haplomitriopsida.html

Homalothecium Subcapillata

Name: Homalothecium Subcapillata

Common name:  Yellow feather moss
Family:  Brachytheciaceae

Collection Date: 

Habitat: On moist surface of small rock, near Chagrin River

Location: South Chagrin Reservation

Description: Flattened, light yellow-green mat of moss

 Collector: Janie Lawson

Key used: Conard, H.S. and P.L. Redfearn, Jr. 1979. How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, Boston, Mass.

Keying Steps:

Introduction Key pg. 19

1b.Plants with stems and leaves, leaves equally spaced around stem…Class III Musci…2

2b. Plants not having many spreading recurved branches and leaves with two types of cells…3

3b. Plants not in reddish brown tufts…Subclass Bryidae

Key to Families/Genera of Bryidae pg. 28

1b. Green plants; if empty cells occur only at base, apex, or margin of leaf...3

3b. Leaves in three or more rows, but sometimes flattened...7

7b. Plants with peristome of more than 4 teeth, gemmae when present not arranged in cup...8

8b. Leaves well developed and persistant...9

9b. Plants not having sessile, inclined, asymmetric, immersed capsule ...10

10b. Plants with or without a distinct stem; capsule when presnt with an operculum; may or may not be ephemeral....17
17b. Plants minute to large, capsules, immersed to exserted; if minute with immersed capsules, growing on rocks, trees, or soil and not ephemeral...20
20b. Plants without photosynthetic growths on leaves…28

28b. Peristome single or double; growing on various substrates, but not restricted to rich organic soil or other organic matter…33

33b. Stems creeping or branching, usually extensively branched in interwoven mats…139

139b. Leaves smooth, more or less glossy…174

174b. Paraphyllia or multicellular propagula few or none, usually not seen…182

182b. Costa single and strong, to short and/or double to absent…183

183b. Costa single, reaching middle of leaf or beyond, or short and/or double…184

184a. Costa single, reaching middle of leaf or beyond…185

185b. Terrestrial, on wet or dry substrate, usually not submerged…192

192b. Plants not dendroid…193

193b. Leaves not distinctly bordered…194

194b. Leaves narrowly lanceolate to ovate…196

196b. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, rarely falcate, never circinate…197

197b. Median leaf cells elongate…214

214b. Shoots not complanate-foliate…216

216a. Alar cells clear, thin-walled, inflated…221

221b. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, curved outline…225

225b. Alar cells fewer, sometimes inflated…227

227b. Plants larger…228

228. Branches not julaceus…229

229a. Leaves lanceolate; small quadrate alar cells; not plicate; sharply serrate leaves…Homalothecium

Key to Family Brachytheciaceae– Genus Homalothecium

Homalothecium Subcapillata

Links:

Bartramia Ithyphylla

Name: Bartramia Ithyphylla

Common name:  Stiff Apple Moss
Family:  Bartramiacea

Collection Date: 

Habitat: On wet soil near edge of water

Location: South Chagrin Reservation

Description: Dark green, tuft of  moss

 Collector: Janie Lawson

Key used: Conard, H.S. and P.L. Redfearn, Jr. 1979. How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, Boston, Mass.

Keying Steps:

Introduction Key pg. 19

1b.Plants with stems and leaves, leaves equally spaced around stem…Class III Musci…2

2b. Plants not having many spreading recurved branches and leaves with two types of cells…3

3b. Plants not in reddish brown tufts…Subclass Bryidae

Key to Families/Genera of Bryidae pg. 28

1b. Green plants; if empty cells occur only at base, apex, or margin of leaf...3

3b. Leaves in three or more rows, but sometimes flattened...7

7b. Plants with peristome of more than 4 teeth, gemmae when present not arranged in cup...8

8b. Leaves well developed and persistant...9

9b. Plants not having sessile, inclined, asymmetric, immersed capsule ...10

10b. Plants with or without a distinct stem; capsule when presnt with an operculum; may or may not be ephemeral....17
17b. Plants minute to large, capsules, immersed to exserted; if minute with immersed capsules, growing on rocks, trees, or soil and not ephemeral...20
20b. Plants without photosynthetic growths on leaves…28

28b. Peristome single or double; growing on various substrates, but not restricted to rich organic soil or other organic matter…33

33a. Stems erect, unbranched or branches erect; generally in tufts…34

34b. Leaves, especially bases not as above…36

36b. Leaf cells mammilose, pappilose, or or striolate…37

37b. Leaf cells striolate or pappilose…43

43b. Alar cells not enlarged…45

45b. Stems upright, sparcely branched…54

54b. plants in extensive tufts, normally on rock or soil…55

55b. Leaves lanceolate, widest below middle, taper to apex…64

64b. margins of leaves revolute or plane…66

66a. Stems matted together… 67

67b. without gemmae, pappilae small…68

68b. Pappilae at one or both ends of cells; capsules ovoid and wrinkled when dry…69

69b. Plants of drier habitats such as rocks or banks; leaves linear, narrowly lanceolate…70

70a. Plants 4-7mm long; leaves curly or strait; capsule ribbed…Bartramia

Key to the Family Bartramiacea- Genus Bartramia

1b. Leaves broad, clasping at base, abruptly narrowed at apex…Bartramia Ithyphylla

Links: http://www.bbsfieldguide.org.uk/content/bartramia-ithyphylla

http://symbiota.org/bryophytes/taxa/index.php?taxon=158030

Hygroamblystegium sp.

Name: Hygroamblystegium sp.

Common name:  n/a
Family:  Amblystegium

Collection Date: 

Habitat: On wet soil near edge of water

Location: South Chagrin Reservation

Description: Dark green, tuft of  moss

 Collector: Janie Lawson

Key used: Conard, H.S. and P.L. Redfearn, Jr. 1979. How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, Boston, Mass.

Keying Steps:

Introduction Key pg. 19

1b.Plants with stems and leaves, leaves equally spaced around stem…Class III Musci…2

2b. Plants not having many spreading recurved branches and leaves with two types of cells…3

3b. Plants not in reddish brown tufts…Subclass Bryidae

Key to Families/Genera of Bryidae pg. 28

1b. Green plants; if empty cells occur only at base, apex, or margin of leaf...3

3b. Leaves in three or more rows, but sometimes flattened...7

7b. Plants with peristome of more than 4 teeth, gemmae when present not arranged in cup...8

8b. Leaves well developed and persistant...9

9b. Plants not having sessile, inclined, asymmetric, immersed capsule ...10

10b. Plants with or without a distinct stem; capsule when presnt with an operculum; may or may not be ephemeral....17
17b. Plants minute to large, capsules, immersed to exserted; if minute with immersed capsules, growing on rocks, trees, or soil and not ephemeral...20
20b. Plants without photosynthetic growths on leaves…28

28b. Peristome single or double; growing on various substrates, but not restricted to rich organic soil or other organic matter…33

33b. Stems creeping or branching, usually extensively branched in interwoven mats…139

139b. Leaves smooth, more or less glossy…174

174b. Paraphyllia or multicellular propagula few or none, usually not seen…182

182b. Costa single and strong, to short and/or double to absent…183

183b. Costa single, reaching middle of leaf or beyond, or short and/or double…184

184a. Costa single, reaching middle of leaf…185

185a. Plants growing in aquatic environment

186b. Leaves not complanate-secund…189

189b. Leaves either flat or concave, not keeled…190

190b. Leaves entire, flat or concave…191

191b. Leaves thick, opaque, lanceolate to ovate, coata stout…Hydroamblystegium

Links: http://www.theplantlist.org/browse/B/Amblystegiaceae/Hygroamblystegium/

http://eol.org/pages/926191/overview

Drummondia Prorepens

Name: Drummondia Prorepens

Common name:  n/a
Family:  Drummondiaceae

Collection Date: 

Habitat: damp soil

Location: South Chagrin Reservation

Description: Matted, dark green moss

 Collector: Janie Lawson

Key used: Conard, H.S. and P.L. Redfearn, Jr. 1979. How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, Boston, Mass.

Keying Steps:

Introduction Key pg. 19

1b.Plants with stems and leaves, leaves equally spaced around stem…Class III Musci…2

2b. Plants not having many spreading recurved branches and leaves with two types of cells…3

3b. Plants not in reddish brown tufts…Subclass Bryidae

Key to Families/Genera of Bryidae pg. 28

1b. Green plants; if empty cells occur only at base, apex, or margin of leaf...3

3b. Leaves in three or more rows, but sometimes flattened...7

7b. Plants with peristome of more than 4 teeth, gemmae when present not arranged in cup...8

8b. Leaves well developed and persistant...9

9b. Plants not having sessile, inclined, asymmetric, immersed capsule ...10

10b. Plants with or without a distinct stem; capsule when presnt with an operculum; may or may not be ephemeral....17
17b. Plants minute to large, capsules, immersed to exserted; if minute with immersed capsules, growing on rocks, trees, or soil and not ephemeral...20
20b. Plants without photosynthetic growths on leaves…28

28b. Peristome single or double; growing on various substrates, but not restricted to rich organic soil or other organic matter…33

33a. Stems erect, unbranched or branches erect; generally in tufts…34

34b. Leaves, especially bases not as above…36

36b. Leaf cells smooth…83

83b. Plants growing on trees and forming long creeping stems…84

84a. Cells near base of leaf small and round, capsule ovoid-globulose; widespread in eastern United States…Drummondia

Key to Family Orthotrichaceae- Genus Drummondia

Drummondia prorepens

Plants in dark-green thin mats produced by numerous branches arising from a creeping stem.

Links: http://131.230.176.4/imgs/pso/r/Saxifragaceae_Drummondia_prorepens_3676.html

Distichium capillaceum

Name: Distichium capillaceum

Common Name: n/a

Family: Ditrichaceae

Collection Date:

Habitat:

Location: South Chagrin Reservation

Description: light green, acrocarpous moss

Collector: Janie Lawson

Keying Steps:

Introduction Key pg. 19

1b.Plants with stems and leaves, leaves equally spaced around stem…Class III Musci…2

2b. Plants not having many spreading recurved branches and leaves with two types of cells…3

3b. Plants not in reddish brown tufts…Subclass Bryidae

Key to Families/Genera of Bryidae pg. 28

1b. Green plants; if empty cells occur only at base, apex, or margin of leaf...3

3a. Leaves in 2 rows…4

4b. Leaves not divided into vaginant, dorsal, apical laminae…5

5b. Leaves filiform from sheathing base and narrowed into linear awn.

6b. Linear awn rough, peristome present…Distichium

Key to Family Ditrichaceae - Genus Distichium

1a. Capsules cylindric, symmetric, and erect…Distichium capillaceum

Links:

http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=dica29

Physcomitrella patens

Name: Physcomitrella patens

Common name:  n/a
Family: Funeriaceae

Collection Date: 

Habitat: On moist soil, under a tree, near Chagrin River

Location: South Chagrin Reservation

Description: minute, light green moss; leaves in three ranks

 Collector: Janie Lawson

Key used: Conard, H.S. and P.L. Redfearn, Jr. 1979. How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, Boston, Mass.

Keying Steps:

Introduction Key pg. 19

1b.Plants with stems and leaves, leaves equally spaced around stem…Class III Musci…2

2b. Plants not having many spreading recurved branches and leaves with two types of cells…3

3b. Plants not in reddish brown tufts…Subclass Bryidae

 

Key to Families/Genera of Bryidae pg. 28

1b. Green plants; if empty cells occur only at base, apex, or margin of leaf...3

3b. Leaves in three or more rows, but sometimes flattened...7

7b. Plants with peristome of more than 4 teeth, gemmae when present not arranged in cup...8

8b. Leaves well developed and persistant...9

9b. Plants not having sessile, inclined, asymmetric, immersed capsule ...10

10b. Plants with or without a distinct stem; capsule when presnt with an operculum; may or may not be ephemeral....17

17a. Plants minute, almost stemless; ephemeral; growing on soil…18

18a. Outer cells of capsule wall lax and thin walled…Physcomitrella

Key to Family Funeriaceae- Genus Physcomitrella

 Physcomitrella patens

Small, inconspicuous plants with immersed capsules, on alluvial soil around lakes, ponds, and streams, Quebec, Ohio, Minnesota to Missouri and South Carolina.

Links: http://www.geochembio.com/biology/organisms/physcomitrella/

http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/plaza/organism/view/Physcomitrella+patens