Figure 1: Detail of Nowellia curvifolia
Name: Nowellia curvifolia
Family: Cephaloziaceae
Family: Cephaloziaceae
Collection Date: October 8, 2011
Habitat: Decaying log found in shade
Location: Hiram College Field Station woods
Description: Plants in loose, patches, green in color with unique leaves found on moist decaying logs.Collector: Jamie Frost
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.Plants with stems and leaves, the larger leaves in two rows on the stem and a third row of leaves, leaf cells isodiametric.... 4
4b. Plants...leafy, with more than one chloroplast per cell....5
5b. Plants slightly flattened, distinctly divided into stem and leaf...8
8b. Archegonia at the end of the thallus, terminating its further growth, with only one developing into a sporophyte, usually surrounded at the base by a perianth.....9
9a. Rhizoids present: ........pg 232 Order Jungermanniales
Key to Families/Genera of Jungermanniales pg. 232
1b. Leaves ....toothed, or divided at tip into 2, 3 or 4 lobes....6
6b. Plants not as above;if bilobed, bifurcate vitta absent...7
7a. Leaves...succubous...8
8b. Leaves lobed or their margins with distinct teeth...16
16b. Leaves not complicate-bilobed...18
18a. Leaves transversely inserted on the stem.... 19
19b. Leaves mostly bilobed... 23
23a. Lobes of leaves ciliate....Nowellia curvifolia pg 248
19b. Leaves mostly bilobed... 23
23a. Lobes of leaves ciliate....Nowellia curvifolia pg 248
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