Name: Hygroamblystegium sp.
Common name: n/a
Family: Amblystegium
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
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
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