Speciment #13 Moss

Figure 1: Archidium ohioense

Name: Archidium ohioense

Family:  Archidiaceae

Collection Date:  September 13, 2011

Habitat: Found on a rock wall near a river

Location: South Chargrin Reservation

Description: Yellowish green to green moss. Very minute, found in tuft.
Collector: Jamie Frost


Key used: Conard, H.S, 1956. How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts Revised Edition, WM. C. Brown Company Publishers, Dubuque, Iowa.

Introduction Key pg. 22

1a. Plants with stem and leaves; erect... 2

2a. Leaves equally spaced all around the stem, with midrib; margins entire; cells isodiametric. Class Musci.... pg. 23

Key to Musci pg. 23

1c. All the common mosses. Leaf cells in one layer. Eubrya.... 9

9a.. Stems erect, unbranched, or with branches also erect.... 10

10b. Green plants.... 13

13b. Plants with leaves, with or without capsules.... 14

14b. Leaves attached all around the stem, spreading in all directions... 29

29b. With demonstrable stem, short or long.... 33

33c. Leaves without such outgrowths... 49

49b. Without gemma cups.... 50

50c. Not having either of the above cominations of characters... 52

52c. Leaf cells smooth.... 124

124b. On soil, rocks... 126

126a. Very small mosses... 127

127a. Capsules among, or close to the leaves... 128

128a. Spores large.... Archidium ohioense

Links:
http://bryophytes.plant.siu.edu/imArchidiumOhioense.html