Specimen #14 Entodon Moss

Fig. 1 Leaf of Entodon Moss.
Fig. 2 Peristome teeth of Entodon moss. 
Fig. 3 Entodon cladorrhizans with red-brown seta, upright cylindrical capsules; growing on a rotten log.

Specimen 14

Name: Entodon cladorrhizans Entadon Moss
Family: Entodontaceae

Collection Date: Oct. 8, 2011

Habitat: rotting log

Location: Hiram College Field Station woods, Ohio

Description: Yellow green, branched, looks like scaled fingers, sporophyte erect, lateral
Collector: Jennifer Friedler

Key used: Conard, H.S. and P.L. Redfearn, Jr. 1979. How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts 2^nd 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. Order Bryidae

Key to Families/Genera Bryidae pg. 28

1b. Green, one layer of cells...3

3b. Leaves in three or more rows...7

7b. No isodiometeric cells...8

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

9b. Has a seta...10

10b. Distinct stem; has operculum...17

17b. Large plant...20

20b. No lamellae...28

28b. Not growing on rich organic soil, bones, or other organic matter...33

33b. Branched stems...139

139b. Leaves smooth...174

174b. Paraphyllia or multicellular propagula few, not usually seen...182

182b. Costa single short or absent...183

183b. Costa lacking...184

184b. Costa lacking...230

230b. Terrestrial...231

231a. Median leaf cells long 5-20:1...239

239b. Leaves without one inflated alar cell at extreme basal angle...240

240b. Quadrate alar cells...253

253a. Leaves appressed, broad and entire, jointed peristome...pg. 203 Entodon

1b. leaves acute to apiculate...2

2b. branched flattened...3

3b. plants moderately robust, branches more than 1mm wide...4

4a. seta reddish—brown...Entodon cladorrhizans

“Plants in wide, yellowish-green, sometimes glossy, mats, stems and branches flattened, on soil, logs, tree bases; South Dakota to Rhode Island south to Missouri, Indiana, North Carolina” (Conrad 204).

Links:

http://bobklips.com/october2010.html

http://eol.org/pages/923225/overview

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