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| Fig. 1 Pellia next to a quarter. |
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| Fig. 2 Pellia thallus close up. |
Family: Pelliaceae
Collection Date: Oct. 8, 2011
Habitat: Damp rock
Location: Hiram College Field Station woods, Ohio
Description:Branching thalloid, pale green, translucent, with more than one chloroplast per cell
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
1b. Plant thalloid...4
4b. More than one chloroplast per cell...5
5a. Strongly flattened, thalloid, without distinction between stem and leaf...6
6b. translucent or transparent...7
7b. Thallai ribbon shaped, no pear shaped sacs...pg 238 Metzgeriales
Key to Order Metzgeriales pg. 238
1b. Thallos...2
2b. Deeply lobed without blue green algae...3
3b. midrib ill defined, 1 cell thick at margins...6
6a plant 4-16mm wide...pg 277 Pellia
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