Wow what an amazing day to be a bryologist in the space of 20 feet I foundwild Marchantia polymorpha (it's a different subspecies from the green house weed),
Plagiochila porelloides (It's huge!)
Riccardia multifida (in my petri dish) and
Hookeria lucens moss and I was able to ID all of them in just about an hour.
Earlier this week with help from exeperts I identified Spagnum girgensohnii and I then I identified Sphagnum squarrosum all by myself. I am starting to understand the Sphagnum keys but still no luck getting a branch leaf cross section.
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| Riccardia multifida with up to 3 unistrose border cells and oil bodies only in the internal tissues |
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| Hookeria lucens at just 40 times, the cells are huge |
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| Plagiochila prelloides, this plant is huge for a leafy liverwort |
Sphagnum girgensohnii
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| Sphagnum girgensohnii |
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| Stem cross section |
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| Stem cortical cells |
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| Stem leaf |
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| Abaxial branch leaf surface |
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| Adaxial branch leaf surface |
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| Branch leaf cells |
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| Stem leaf cells |
