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Oh what the heck. Bernie is sitting on Orthotrichu

Oh what the heck. Bernie is sitting on Orthotrichum in a forest of Lindbergia brachyptera. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mosses #bryophytes #mosses #bryophyta #bobklips

The three kinds of bryophytes (left to right) are

The three kinds of bryophytes (left to right) are hornworts, liverworts, and mosses. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mosses #bryophytes #hornworts #liverworts #bryophyta #bobklips

Leaf costa variation. From left to right: no costa

Leaf costa variation. From left to right: no costa on Hedwig’s ciliate moss; short double costa on flat-stemmed silk moss; costa extending halfway to leaf tip on dark beaked moss; and costa extending past leaf tip as an apiculus on cord moss. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mosses #bryophytes #mosses #bryophyta #bobklips

There has been some not wholly unwarranted skeptic

There has been some not wholly unwarranted skepticism about my earlier comparison of Brothera leana to cheerleaders with pompoms. Just to clear that up, here is evidence, such as it is. Rah-rah sis koom-bah, yay, team! #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mosses #bryophytes #mosses #bryophyta #bobklips

Calyptra features. Left: Ohio bristle moss (Orthot

Calyptra features. Left: Ohio bristle moss (Orthotrichum ohioense) has a mitrate calyptra that is undivided at the base (a mitrate calyptra can also be lobed). Center: common broom moss (Dicranum scoparium) has a cucullate (split lengthwise) calyptra. Right: the eponymous hairy calyptra of Ohio haircap moss (Polytrichum ohioense) #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mosses #bryophytes #mosses #bryophyta #bobklips

Mosses, lacking roots, need to be able to dry out

Mosses, lacking roots, need to be able to dry out without ill effects, then perk up again when it gets wet. A portion of this patch of blunt-leaved anomodon moss (Anomodon minor) is dry (the foreground) )and a portion is wet (the background). This was seen yesterday on a limestone cliff in west-central Ohio's Clark County. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mossesc#bryophytes #mosses #bryophyta #anomodon #bobklips

Lichen Quiz!! (fill in the blanks): The TOP BREAD

Lichen Quiz!! (fill in the blanks):
The TOP BREAD SLICE represents __________.
The CHICK PEAS represent ___________.
The RAMEN NOODLES represents _________.
The BOTTOM BREAD SLICE represents _____.
The TOOTHPICKS represents ________.
The REESEY CUP represents __________.
Word bank: apothecium; medulla; lower cortex; upper cortex; rhizines; algal (photobiont) layer #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #lichens #folioselichens #bobklips

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Orange-cored shadow lichen, Phaeophyscia rubropulc

Orange-cored shadow lichen, Phaeophyscia rubropulchra, is astoundingly dark. It's small too. Easy to miss. Also easy to identify, by virtue of the orange interior (not shown in photo). This was seen today in a park in central Ohio's Pickaway County. #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #lichens #folioselichens #phaeophyscia #bobklips

Got it! One of the funny things about lichen ID is

Got it! One of the funny things about lichen ID is that there are some features so subtle you can hardly see them, that nonetheless are the basis for major classification distinctions. This Parmotrema reticulatum has a specific epithet that is a shout-out to patterned fissuring on the margins that I've never actually seen the half-dozen times I've encountered this lichen. But finally, this photo shows it. Hooray! This is growing on an oak tree in a park-like setting in a park in central Ohio's Franklin County. #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #lichens #folioselichens #parmotrema #bobklips

The apothecia of Peltigera species (this is "dog l

The apothecia of Peltigera species (this is "dog lichen," P. canina) are easy to see but also easy not to recognize, being produced on the upper surface of upturned thallus lobes, such that all you can usually get a clear shot of is the underside. Look way over on the right to see the red spore-forming layer of one of them. This was seen today in central Ohio's Battelle Darby Metro Park. By the way, this lichen has a cyanobacterial photobiont, not the green alga that most lichens have. #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #lichens #folioselichens #peltigera #bobklips

This is a common lichen growing on a fencepost in

This is a common lichen growing on a fencepost in a Metro Park (Metropark?) (MetroPark?) (does anyone know how to spell that word?) a couple weeks ago. It's "hammered shield lichen," Parmelia sulcata. Note the patterned ridges on the lobes, and soredia along patterned cracks on the surface. #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #lichens #folioselichens #parmelia #bobklips

On Tuesday I popped over to Greenlawn Cemetery to

On Tuesday I popped over to Greenlawn Cemetery to look at mosses and lichens. Some of the grave markets there are home to this moss, Porter's screw moss, Tortula porteri. It's a member of the family Potiaceae, a cushion mosses many of which have bumpy (papillose) leaf cells, a microscopic feature that can be inferred by the pale matte finish look of the leaves. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mosses #tortula #bobklips

This little cushion moss (acrocarp) is extremely a

This little cushion moss (acrocarp) is extremely abundant at the eroding bluff I visited last Driday in northeast Ohio's lake County. It's "variable forklet moss," Dicranella varia, a less common species than the silky forklet moss, D. heteromalla, that you see along woodland trails. Look for the red, not yellow, sporophyte stalks. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mosses #dicranella #bryophytes #mosses #bryophyta #bryophytes #bobklips

Lichen = fungus + alga. True, usually, or it depen

Lichen = fungus + alga. True, usually, or it depends what you consider to be "algae." Correctly termed, algae are photosynthetic eukaryotes that are not plants, and indeed, the photosynthetic partner of most lichens is a unicelled green alga. Most but not all of them. This is a "cyanolichen" (also called a "jelly lichen"), i.e., one wherein the photobiont is a cyanobacterium (aka "blue-green alga"). This lichen is a Collema, quite possibly the rare Collema bachmanianum. (I find them herd to identify.) Shaun Pogacnik showed it to me Friday on an eroding Lake Erie Bluff in northeast Ohio's Lake County. #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #lichens #folioselichens #collema #bobklips

Rare but widely distributed, this "flag moss," Dis

Rare but widely distributed, this "flag moss," Discelium nudum is the only species in its family (unsurprisingly, the Disceliaceae). It grows on disturbed ground, in this case an ecologically significant eroding bluff along Lake Erie in northeast Ohio's Lake County. It is one of only a very few mosses (Pogonatum pensilvanicum is a better known example) that have a persistent protonema (the protonema is a vaguely alga-like stage in the moss life cycle that is the first thing that appears after spore germination and is usually short-lived, fading away after giving rise to substantial leafy gametophytes). Hence the gametophytes are miniscule, with protonema doing most of the photosynthesis. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mosses#bryophytes #mosses #bryophyta #discelium #bobklips

Another cheery and rare foliose lichen from northe

Another cheery and rare foliose lichen from northeast Ohio, seen Friday on a cottonwood along the Lake Erie coast. This is poplar sunburst lichen, Xanthomendoza hasseana. Lacking asexual propagules entirely (neither isidiate nor sorediate) this one reproduces solely by fungal spores. The narrow and downturned lobes distinguish it from the broader, flat-lobed, Xanthoria parietina which was growing nearly. #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #lichens #folioselichens #xanthoria #bobklips

Oooh, a nice comparison! Here are members of two c

Oooh, a nice comparison! Here are members of two closely related genera, one named after the other. The light one which by the way is white beneath, is starry rosette lichen, Physcia stellaris. The dark one which by the way is dark beneath is smooth shadow lichen, Phaeophyscia ciliata. "Phaeophyscia" translates to "gray Physcia." Note that neither of these produce any asexual propagules ,i.e., soredia or isidia, and so produce abundant fungal spore-producing structures, the disk-shaped apothecia. The fungi somehow find a partner algae living alone, and form a new lichen symbiosis each time I guess. This was seen Friday on a cottonwood tree at the Lake Erie coastline in northeast Ohio. #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #lichens #folioselichens #physcia #phaeophyscia #bobklips

This is common sunburst lichen, Xanthoria parietin

This is common sunburst lichen, Xanthoria parietina, seen yesterday on a cottonwood tree at the shore of Lake Erie in northeast Ohio. Widely distributed across the globe and abundant in many parts of the US, it is not very common in Ohio. How not very common? Hard to say. The supposedly authoritative Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria, which is a catalog of specimens in official herbaria, only has 4 records for the state, three of which are undated 19th-century or very early 20th-century specimens, along with one "recent" one from 1940. Meanwhile, iNaturalist, which is less authoritative, as it just uses geotagged photos, has 37 observations, but they they look correct. It's a problem, deciding what data to use when mapping species distribution. #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #lichens #folioselichens #xanthoria #bobklips

Oooh. Shaun Pogacnik today showed me this odd and

Oooh. Shaun Pogacnik today showed me this odd and wonderful thallose liverwort that he found on an eroding bluff overlooking Lake Erie in northeastern Ohio's Lake County. It's Blasia pusila, a primarily northern and Appalachian species for which there are only 11 Ohio records, the most recent from 1982. Those flask-shaped receptacles are sites of production of stalked ovoid several-celled gemmae that are extruded out the narrow orifice. Not evident in the photo are other gemmae produced on the lobe margins, and colonies if blue-green bacteria near the lobe margins. Quite a complicated little plant #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #bryophytes #marchantiophyta #liverworts #blasia #bobklips

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