Specimen #12 Bryoandersonia illecebra

                                          Figure 1: Bryoandersonia growing in the wild

                                          Figure 2: Close up of the leaves

                                           Figure 3: Another view of the leaves

                                          Figure 4: One leaf isolated 


Name: Bryoandersonia illecebra
Family:  Brachytheciaceae

Collection Date:  October 22, 2011

Habitat: Growing in the soil on the ground

Location: The Nature Realm

Description: "Plants robust, in extensive light to golden or brownish mats, branches julaceous, erect, leaves closely imbricate, on soil, rock ledges, throughout the eastern United States.. (Conrad and Redfearn, 1979)."
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
184a. Costa single, reaching the middle of the leaf or beyond.. 185
185b. Terrestrial, on dry or wet substrates, not normally submerged.. 192
192b. Plants not dendroid.. 193
193b. Leaves no distinctly bordered.. 194
194a. Leaves nearly circular, appressed, deeply concave, with abrupt slender tips; shoots fat and cylindric.. 195
195a. Apex ending abruptly in a short twisted point.. (p.198) Bryoandersonia illecebra

 Links:
http://bryophytes.plant.siu.edu/imBryoandersoniaIllecebra.html 
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/bryoandersonia_illecebra.shtml 
http://www.ohio.edu/plantbio/vislab/moss/brown.html