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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Introduction to
Moss ID Links ID1 (Intro to Plants) ID2 (Bryophytes) ID3 (Life Cycle) ID4 (Divsions) ID5 (Books & Gear) ID6 (Leaves) ID7 (Cells) ID8 (Sporophytes) ID9 (peculiar Sphagnum) ID10 (peculiar Atrichum) ID11 (peculiar Fissidens) ID12. (Key Overview) ID13 (Platygyrium start) ID14 (Platygyrium finish) ID15 (Funaria start) ID16 (Funaria finish) ID17 (Orthotrichum start) ID18 (Orthotrichum finish) ID19 (OH Atlas & FQAI) ID20. (Plag. cusp.) ID21 (Ambl. vari., Anom. Atte.) ID22 (Plat. repe., Ento. sedu.) ID23 (Cera. purp., Anom. rost.) ID24 (Clim. amer., Thui. deli.) ID25 (Atri angu.) |
INTRO TO MOSS ID (p. 22)
(10 most common OH mosses) Platygyrium repens and Entodon seductrix ![]() Plstygyrium repens is an extremely common inhabitant of decorticated logs. It has a distinctively look: dark green, almost oily-looking. ![]() Platygtrium repens on log at A.W. Marion State Park, Pickaway County, OH, December 2007.
![]() Platygyrium repens is a small little-branched pleurocarp that often has numerous ascending branches.
The sporophytes are erect, with straight capsules. A useful diagnostic feature of Platygyrium
is the presence of clusters of propagula (asexual reproductuve
structures) at the tips of many upright branches, somewhat resembling
the dreadlocks worn by the Simpson's character "Sideshow Bob."
![]() Platygyrium through the microscope
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recognized by having moderatly long leaf cells, a short
double costa, and triangular blocks of short, thick-walled alar cells.
![]() ![]() Platygyium repens leaf (left) and leaf base (right) showing short double costa and blocks of squarish, thick-walled alar cells.
Entodon seductrixEntodon seductrix is a moderately
large, shiny, much-branched pleucarp that is common on stumps and
logs, occasionally ocuring on the ground as well.
![]() Entodon seductrix on a stump at Kraus Wood Preserve, Delaware, OH.
There are two fairly common species of Entodon in Ohio, differentiable in the field by the disposition of their leaves on the stem. E. cladorhizans (not shown) is strongly flattened (complanate), whereas this species, E. seductrix, is julaceous i.e., the leaves surround the stem in an expanded uniform way so that the branches are more or less tubular, like a cat's tail. ![]() Entodon seductrix, from above. Entodon leaves are ovate in shape,
with a short double costa, and clearly differentiated triangular
clusters of short-rectangular alar cells. The sporophytes are erect
with especially long straight capsules.
![]() ![]() Entodon seductrix leaf (left) and capsules in mid-November. Coming Soon: Ceratodon and Anomodon rostratus
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