Name: Diphyscium folioso
Family: Buxbaumiaceae
Collection Date: Oct. 8, 2011
Habitat: Damp soil and rocks
Location: South Chagrin Reservation, Ohio
Description:
Collector: Jennifer Friedler
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
1a. has stem and leaves; erect, ascending, prostrate, or hanging...2
2b. No hayline cells...3
3b. Green...pg. 28. Bryidae
Key to Subclass Bryidae pg. 28
1b. Green, one layer of cells...3
3b. Leaves in three or more rows...7
7b. No isodiometeric cells...8
8a. leaves small, rarely seen...9
9a. Capsule sessile (without seta), immersed in bristle-tipped perichaetial leaves...pg 222 Diphyscium
Diphyscium foliosum
"Plant small, in rigid, dark green, brown, to blackish extensive tufts, capsules nearly, sesile in forests on soil, humus, shaded banks, cliff, rock walls of ravines and gorges, wide spread in eastern America" (Conrad 222).
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