Specimen 8

Name: Schwetschkeopsis fabronia

Common name:
Family: Myriniaceae
Collection Date: October 8, 2011
Habitat: Growing at base of tree in a thick dense mat inshade
Location:Feild Station
Description: A mat of moss growing in fairly dry conditions on the base trunk of the tree.
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 multi cellular...2
2 plants not as above...3
3b. plants not as above...page 28
page 28
1b...Green,brown,or blackish plants;...3
3b.leaves inserted in three or more rows...7
7b.plants with a peristome of more than 4 teeth or peristome absent...8
8b.Leaves well developed an persistent...9
9b.Capsule and leaves not as above...10
10b.Plants with or without distinct stem...17
17b.Plants minute to large;...20
20b.Leaves without such outgrowths...28
28b. Plants not having the above combination of characters;...33
33b.Semi creeping or ascending...in interwoven mats...139
139a.Leaves papillose, at least on the dorsal(lower) side...140
140b.Papillae located over the cell-cavity...150
150b.Plants not conspicuously fern-like or dendroid...152
152b.leaves not as above...153
153a. leaves without a costa or with a short or longe doble costa...154
154b.Costa short and double to absent...155
155b.Median leaf cells oval to short-rhomboidal...156
156b. Paraphyllia absent...157
157a.Leaves ovate or narrower...158
158a.leaf margins serrulate from base to apex...page 166 Schwetschkeopsis
Page 166
Schwetschkeopsis fabronia
From Conrard and Redfearn "Plants olive to yellow-green, glossy, in crowded mats, stems slender, julaceous; leaf cells unipapillose, on tree trunks, and rocks, Missouri, Illinois, Inddiana, Pennsylvania to Connecticut south to Florida and the Gulf States" (1979)
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