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Identification of some Calciphorous Mosses
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Plant Sciences
Undergraduate 3
03/29/2018

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Fissidens sp.
Definition
Acrocarp with complanate, flat, feather-like shoot, unbranched, two ranked leaves in vaginant laminae, open turf, on soil [image]
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Brachythecium oxycladon
Definition
Robust Yellow-Green Pleurocarp, shiny, irregularly branched, plicate leaves, short brown capsules, rough mat, on rock or soil [image]
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Tortella tortuosa
Definition
Yellow-Green Acrocarp, loose turf or mound, leaf tips corkscrew twisted when dry and wide spreading when moist, on rock or soil
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Orthotricum anomalum
Definition
Blackish green tufts, dull, radiculose at base, yellow capsules with short seta, erect crowded leaves that are widespread when moist
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Thuidium abietinum
Definition
Robust, rigid, dark green wiry, pinnate front, short terete branches, rough mat, rock or soil [image]
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anomodon attenuatus
Definition
Robust, yellow green pleurocarp, coarse, subpinnate branching, secondary branches droop, tapering becomes attenuate, on limestone or base of trees
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Anomodon minor
Definition
Coarse, browhish green, small, rounded erect leaves, not much branching, branches slender, not pinnate or contorted when dry, smooth mat, on rock or tree bases
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Anomodon rugelli
Definition
Coarse, Dark green rough mat, little secondary branching, leaves erect and wide spreading with rounded apex, on tree trunks and rocks [image]
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Anomodon rostratus
Definition
Small, bright green, dense smooth mat, crowded leaves with long hyaline hairpoints, short terete branches, revolute leaf margin, soil, rock, tree bases [image]
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Rhodobryum roseum
Definition
Dendroid moss with leaves in terminal rosette, large translucent leaves that are dark green, reddish stem, on thin soil over calcareous rock
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Encalypta procera
Definition
dull green acrocarp with translucent leaves, leaves long spatulate, lower stem and leaf axils brown with radicles with brood bodies, short turf, on shaded ledges
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Climacium dendroides
Definition
Large, robust dendroid moss with yellow-green branching leaves, new shoots with short bright green leaves on small branches, on soil [image]
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Trichocolea tomentella
Definition
liverwort on soil, dull green, mold-like appearance
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Anomodon viticulosis
Definition
large mat of dull green-yellow moss, shaggy looking appearance, shoots curled and interwoven, leaves erect when dry but widespread and darker green when wet [image]
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Tortula ruraliformis
Definition
Acrocarp, light yellow-green, red stems, leaves wrap around stems that all curve in same direction when dry
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