Figure 1: Bryhnia graminicolor
Name: Bryhnia graminicolor
Family: Hypnaceae
Collection Date: September 13, 2011
Habitat: Found among forest floor, shaded area.
Location: South Chargrin Reservation
Description: Green moss with branches often with leaves with tips twisted to the right. Some papillae among leaves, costa present. Moss often found in yellowish green mats.
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.
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, ascending..... 2
2a. Leaves equally spaced all around the stem, usually with midrib; margins entired or toothed; cells elongate. Class Musci..... pg. 23
Key to Musci pg. 23
1c.All the common mosses. Leaf cells in one layer. Eubrya.... 9
9b. Stems creeping and branching. Pleurocarpi.... pg. 97
Key to Pleurocarpi pg. 97
1a. Leaves papillose, at least on posterior side... 2
2a. Papillae consist of projecting angles of the cell wall.... 3
3a. Leaves with a single strong midrib extending beyond middle of leaf... 4
4b. Leaves .6-1.2 mm. long..... 5
5a. Leaves serrate, translucent, decurrent; cells fusiform. Genus Bryhnia... 6
6a. Branch leaves ovate, abruptly short-acuminate, the tip twisted to the right, deccurent.... Bryhnia graminicolor
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