Specimen #13 Cephelozia

Fig. 1 Cephelozia on a dead log.

Fig. 2 Cephalozie with bilobed leaves.

Specimen 13

Name: Cephelozia
Family: Cephaloziaceae

Collection Date: Oct. 8, 2011

Habitat: rotting log

Location: Hiram College Field Station woods, Ohio

Description: Very small leafy liverwort, light green, leaves bilobed coming to points, not complicate-bilobed, lacking underleaves
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

1b. Stem and leaves, 2 rows with third rod on underside of stem...4

4b. leafy; more than one chloroplast per cell...5

5b. distinct leaf and stem...8

8b. not fossombronia (this step judged by archegonia which my sample lacked so I looked at what 8a Fossombronia lead to)...9

9a. rhizoids present...pg. 232 Jungermanniales

Key to Order Jungermanniales pg. 232

1b. leaves entire, toothed or divided at tip...6

6b. leaves bilobed without bifurcate vitta...7

7a. succubous leaves...8

8a. leaves lobed...16

16b. Not complicate-bilobed...18

18b. Leaves succubously inserted...27

27b. Underleaves absent...34

34b. Leaves uniformly and simply bilobed...36

36a. Branches ventral in origin, leaf cells noncollenchymatous...37

37a outer cells of stem large, pellucid, underleaves absent...pg. 246 Cephalozia

Links:

http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=CEPHA5