Figure 1: Sporophyte (the seta is very red and bright)
Figure 2: Close up of leaves
Figure 3: Callicladium growing on a decaying log
Name: Callicladium haldanianum
Family: Hypnaceae
Family: Hypnaceae
Collection Date: October 22, 2011
Habitat: Growing on a piece of decaying wood
Location: The Nature Realm
Description: "Plants in loose, dark to brownish green, wide mats, leaves entire.., on soil, logs, tree trunks and bases, rocks.. (Conrad and Redfearn, 1979)."
Collector: Kelcie Cuckler
Collector: Kelcie Cuckler
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
1a. Plant with stems and leaves,.. rhizoids multicellular,.. no elaters in capsule.. 2
2b. Plants not sphagnidae.. 3
3b. Plants not andreaeidae.. p.28 subclass bryidae
Key to Genera/Species
1b. Green, brown, yellow plants.. not in 2 or 3 layers.. 3
3b. Leaves inserted in 3 or more rows.. 7
7b. Plants with a peristome of more than 4 teeth.. 8
8b. Leaves well developed and persistent.. 9
9b. Capsule and leaves not as above.. 10
10b. Plants without a distinct stem, capsule with operculum.. 17
17b. Plants minute to large, capsules minute to exerted.. 20
20b. Leaves without photosynthetic outgrowths.. 28
28b. Plants don't only grow on organic matter.. peristome single or double.. 33
33b. Stems creeping or ascending, usually extensively branched, in interwoven mats.. 139
139b. Leaves smooth; more or less glossy.. 174
174b. Paraphyllia or multicellular propagula few or none, usually not seen, if numerous, then plants complanate.. 182
182b. Costa single and strong to short and/or double to absent.. 183
183b. Costa single, reaching the middle of the leaf or beyond to lacking, or short and/or double..184
184b. Costa lacking, or short and/or double.. 230
184b. Costa lacking, or short and/or double.. 230
230b. Plants terrestrial.., not in areas where subject to long periods of submergence in flowing water or growing in water.. 231
231b. Median leaf cells long to very long.. 239
239b. Leaves not as above.. 240
240a. Leaves with several distinctly inflated alar cells.. 241
241b. Alar cells in a cluster, inflated.. 242
242b. Alar cells more numerous, less inflated, ,thicker walled, often colored.. 244
244b. Leaves not as above.. 245
245b. Leaves complanate.. 249
249a. Leaves shiny, not falcate-secund; alar cells in a cluster, enlarged and clear.. 250
250a. Leaves entire.. (p. 216) Callicladium haldanianum
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