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
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