Specimen 2

Figure 1. Tis moss was found growing in the dirt of a path.

Name: Fissidens garberi

Common name: 

Family: Fissidentaceae

Collection Date:  September 13,2011

Habitat: Coarse woody debris in advanced stages of rotting in shade

Location:South Chargin Reservation

Description:

Collector: Ken Belter

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: Some of the key steps here have been abbreviated or only highlight certain aspects of the description. Some of the shorter ones like plants not as above will appear as in the book.

Start of Key page 19

     1a. Plants with Stems and Leaves; leaves equally spaced around the stem or, if in two opposite rows, leaf cells elongate or isodiametric and rhizoids multicellular...2
     2b. Plants not as above...3
     3b. Plants not as above...pg 28 Subclass Brtidae
Page 28
    1b. Green...3
    3a. Leaves inserted in the stem in two rows...4
    4a. Leaves appearing split at the base consisting of two vaginant laminae which clasp the steam...pg 62 Fissidens
Page 62
    1b. Plants on earth, trees, or rocks, not normally submerged...4
    4a. Leaves boarded at lest in part with long narrow cells...5
    5a. Border confined to vaginant lamin...6
    6a. Leaves papillose...7
    7a. Costa ending 2-several below apex...Fissidens garberi
From Conard and Redfearn "Small plants, 2-4mm high, on rocks, rotten wood,Missouri, Illinois south to Texas, Louisiana, and Florida" (1979).
Links
http://plants.usda.gov/java/nameSearch
http://www.andrewspink.nl/mosses/thumbnails.htm
http://www.ohio.edu/plantbio/vislab/moss/bryophyte.htm
http://www.plantguide.org/genus-fissidens.html