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Last night I slept in a cave in southern Ohio's Ho

Last night I slept in a cave in southern Ohio's Hocking County. This was my roommate. It's Vittaria appalachiana, the "Appalachian Gametophyte," the gametophyte stage of a fern that exists only as an asexually-reproducing gametophyte (i.e., no leafy sporophyte). It is a member of a tropical genus. Its origin is connected with glaciation that caused conditions unfavorable for the leafy stage to grow, but the wee little gametophyte persisted in deep continually cool moist recesses. #vittaria #gametophyte #ferns #pteridophyta #bobklips

An uncommon moss of disturbed sites, this is "long

An uncommon moss of disturbed sites, this is "long-necked moss," Trematodon longicollis, seen yesterday on the gravel of an active railroad bed in east-central Ohio's Licking County. #mosses #bryophytes #trematodon_longicollis #bobklips

This little lobe of Purple-fringed Liverwort (Rebo

This little lobe of Purple-fringed Liverwort (Reboulia hemisphaerica) bravely invaded this big scary patch of Snakeskin Liverwort (Conocephalum something or another) and sent up a female archegoniophore, complete with sporophytes. This was seen on a historic old canal lock in east-central Ohio's Licking County. #liverworts #ohioplants #ohiobotany #bryophytes #bobklips

Looking very much like a small version of "spoon-l

Looking very much like a small version of "spoon-leaved moss," (Bryoandersonia illecebra), a view through the microscope showing only a very short double costa and relatively long cells revealed this to be "round silk moss," Plagiothecium cavifolium. It was seen Monday on a sandstone wall in southern Ohio's Hocking County. #moss #mosses #ohioplants #botany #bryophytes #bobklips

While I was out at Rhododendron Cove looking more

While I was out at Rhododendron Cove looking more closely at lichens, I spied this huge specimen of an uncommon ruffle lichen, Parmotrema perforatum. This species reproduces only by spores, not by asexual soredia as does its common close relative, Parmotrema hypotropum. This is on a dead branch of honey-locust, a tree that seems to be a lichen magnet. #fruticoselichens #lichens #parmotrema #ohiolichens #fubgi #bobklips

Kia idioto mi estas! That's Esperanto for how I fe

Kia idioto mi estas!
That's Esperanto for how I feel now that I realize the lichen I was quite sure was Evernia mesomorpha is in fact actually factually indeed really just a Usnea, probably the relatively common Usnea strigosa. The apothecium is a clincher, as is the central strand in the thallus branches. Those bumps all over that looked like soredia from a distance, aren't soredia (not powdery at all). This from Rhododendron Cove State Nature Preserve in southern Ohio this afternoon.
Kia iidioto mi estas! It's fun saying that. It's Esperanto! #lichens #fruticoselichens #usnea #ohiolichens #apothecia #bobklips

If anyone is looking for a simple question for whi

If anyone is looking for a simple question for which the answer is "no," you might try the following: "Is there anything more magnificent than moss sporophytes?" This is woodsy leafy moss, Plagiomnium cuspidatum, seen today in southern Ohio's Hocking County. #mosses #sporophytes #ohioplants #ohiobotany #botany #bryophytes #plagiomnium #bobklips

Dwarf rock bristle, Seligeria pusilla is a rare li

Dwarf rock bristle, Seligeria pusilla is a rare little linear-leaved moss that grows on shady damp vertical rock faces. This is on sandstone in southeastern Ohio's Athens County, as seen Saturday, May 7. #mosses #bryophyte #ohioplants #ohioflora #bobklips

Little bristle moss. Orthotrichum pusillum,. grows

Little bristle moss. Orthotrichum pusillum,. grows high in the bark of trees. This is on a recently fallen one in a woodland in central Ohio's Delaware County. See the relatively small delicate sporangia closely surrounded by the upper leaves. #ohioplants #mosses #bryophytes #ohioflora #bobklips

A harvestperson hanging out on ciliate Hedwig's mo

A harvestperson hanging out on ciliate Hedwig's moss Hedwigia ciliata). #mosses #arachnids #bryophytes #ohioplants #ohioflora #bobklips

Yippee, an identifiable (perhaps) cyanolichen. A f

Yippee, an identifiable (perhaps) cyanolichen. A few foliose lichens have, as their photobiont, not a (eukaryotic) green alga, but rather a (prokarypotic) cyanobacterium (a.k.a. "blue-green algae"). This one with narrow lobes that are dissected into narrow lobe tips that resemble isidia (but the books tell us are not isidia) is "tattered jellyskin," Leptogium lichenoides. It is found on limestone or, as in this case, on mosses on limestone. This specimen, smothering a patch of Anomodon attenuatus moss, was seen yesterday in northwest Ohio's Sandusky County. #cyanolichen #lichens #leptogium #ohiol;ichens #bobklips

Had a great time today moss hunting in northwester

Had a great time today moss hunting in northwestern Ohio's Sandusky County with my friends Jim and Janet. This moss, if identified correctly, is "anomalous bristle moss," Orthotrichum anomalum, seen growing on a slab of limestone in an open wooded area with lots of other slabs of limestone (i.e., a very calcareous area). What's different about this, Orthotrichum-wise, is the fact that the sporophytes are especially tall, with the capsule extended well above the subtending leaves. This seems to be a new county record for a nice rare (for Ohio) moss that has specimen records from only 4 other Ohio counties. #mosses #ohioplants #ohioflora #botany #bryophytes #bobklips

I was elated to see sporophytes developing on Frul

I was elated to see sporophytes developing on Frullania eboracensis. #liverworts #bryophytes #marchantiophyta #frullania #bobklips

A potion of an Equisetum arvense (field horsetail)

A potion of an Equisetum arvense (field horsetail) strobilus (cone). The little white toothlike things are the spore cases (sporangia), dangling from the rims of umbrella-shaped "sporangiophores" that are spirally arranged. This was seen yesterday in central Ohio's Delaware County. #horsetails #equisetum #ohioplants #botant #ferns #ohioflora #pteridophytes #bobklips

Oooh oooh, a rare lichen! Had great fun today work

Oooh oooh, a rare lichen! Had great fun today working with ONAPA (Ohio Natural Areas and Preserves Association) yanking garlic mustard from Rhododendron Cove State Nature Preserve in south-central Ohio's Fairfield County. On the way out I spied this huge specimen of boreal oakmoss (totally not a moss, but you knew that), the fruticose lichen Evernia mesomorpha, a species that is not at all common in Ohio and this one here is apparently the first sighting for the county. It is on a fallen branch along a stream. #lichens #ohiolichens #fruticoselichens #everniamesomorpha #bobklips

The leaf cells of "rough thelia moss," Thelia aspr

The leaf cells of "rough thelia moss," Thelia asprella, take being papillose (bumpy) to a whole new level. This from a specimen seen Sunday at the base of an oak tree in southern Ohio's Vinton County. #mosses #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #Thelia #bobklips #botany #plants

The initial-carving vandal courteously avoided the

The initial-carving vandal courteously avoided the largest of several wart lichen (genus Pertusaria) specimens on this tree, as seen in southern Ohio's Vinton County yesterday. #lichens #crustoselichens #pertusaria #ohioilichens #bobklips

Happy happy joy joy! After years of looking for an

Happy happy joy joy! After years of looking for and not finding and/or looking at and not realizing it, here is "dusky rock moss," Andreaea rothii. A member of a small and distinct taxon, the order Andreales, it is distinguished from other blackish cushion mosses on rock by its odd spore capsule that lacks a peristome but instead splits into 4 segments. This was seen yesterday on a sandstone cliff face in southern Ohio's Vinton County. #mosses #plants #bryophytes #ohioplants #ohiobotany #bobklips

Liverwort sporophytes! They start out looking like

Liverwort sporophytes! They start out looking like black olives, end up looking like little flowers, and don't last long. This is Scapania nemorea, seen this afternoon in southern Ohio's Vinton County. #liverworts #botany #bryophytes #ohioplants #ohioflora #scapania #sporophytes #bobklips

Seligeria pusilla is a tiny somewhat rare acrocarp

Seligeria pusilla is a tiny somewhat rare acrocarpous (upright-stemmed with the sporophytes at the stem tips) moss that is said to have an affinity to limestone but here in southern Ohio's Athens County (seen 2 days ago) it is growing on wet shaded sandstone. #mosses #seligeria #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #flora #bobklips

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