Name: Bartramia Ithyphylla
Common name: Stiff Apple Moss
Family: Bartramiacea
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
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
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