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It's "forked veilwort," Metzgeria furcata. This is

It's "forked veilwort," Metzgeria furcata. This is a type of "simple thalloid liverwort," lacking structures resembling stems or leaves, but thin and less differentiated than a complex one such as Marchantia. This was seen yesterday on a sandstone boulder in southeastern Ohio's Athens County. #liverworts #bryophytes #botany #ohioplants #ohioiflora #bobklips

Oooh! Loeskeobryum brevirostre, short-beaked wood

Oooh! Loeskeobryum brevirostre, short-beaked wood moss, growing on a rock by a stream in far far eastern Ohio's Belmont County on Thursday. #mosses #bryophytes #ohioplants #ohiobotany #ohioflora #botany #plants #bobklips

A single stem of "yellow peatmoss," Sphagnum lescu

A single stem of "yellow peatmoss," Sphagnum lescurii growing in a dense patch of what I believe to be "cut notchwort," Lophoziopsis (Lophozia) excisa in a low spot in a scrub pine stand on a reclaimed coal surface mining site in southern Ohio's Hocking County yesterday. #ohioplants #botany #mosses #liverworts #sphagnum #bobklips

This is "whip broom moss," Dicranum flagellare. Th

This is "whip broom moss," Dicranum flagellare. These stiffy erect branches with the reduced leaves are asexual reproductive structures, as the break off and can develop into new plants. This was seen last week on a weathered bark-free log in a forest in southern Ohio's Hocking County. #moss #bryophytes #botany #gametophytes #ohioplants #ohiobotany #ohioflora #bobklips

This fairly large cushion moss is a fooler. It's "

This fairly large cushion moss is a fooler. It's "crispy smoothcap moss,"Atrichum crispum, a member of a genus that is usually easy to field-recognize by virtue of ribbonlike sheets of cells (lamellae) running lengthwise along the mid-nerve. But this one has lamellae so low, few and indistinct that they go unnoticed. It's thus a rather Plagiomnium-like plant. This was seen in a shallow intermittent sunny streambed in southern Ohio's Hocking County. #mosses #bryophyta #bryophytes #moss #Atrichum #ohioplants #ohioflora #plants #gametophytes #bobklips

Here's another pocket moss with an odd and distinc

Here's another pocket moss with an odd and distinctive substrate. It's "bark pocket moss," Fissidens subbasilaris, seen Monday in southern Ohio's Hocking County. #fissidens #bryophytes #moss #mosses #ohioplants #ohioflora #bobklips

With its long flowing stems and narrow folded leav

With its long flowing stems and narrow folded leaves, this aquatic moss could be mistaken for a "water moss" in the genus Fontinalis, but --surprise --it's a "pocket moss," in the genus Fissidens. Although it isn't apparent in the photo, the base of each leaf is split. This is "water pocket moss," Fissidens fontanus, seen Saturday on a rock in a stream in north-central Ohio's Richland County (and apparently a a new county record). #mosses #fissidens #fissidensfontanus #ohioplants #ohioflora #botany #bryophytes #bobklips

Two lichens seen Friday on a slab of sandstone in

Two lichens seen Friday on a slab of sandstone in a woodland in southern Ohio's Hocking County. The foliose one is Phaeophyscia adiastola, and the crust is a Porpidia (probably crustulata). #lichens #bobklips

Usually seen on calcareous rock or soil, apparentl

Usually seen on calcareous rock or soil, apparently "Small twisted moss," Tortella humilis, can be found on bark as well. This was seen today on a hardwood tree leaning steeply across a stream in southern Ohio's Hocking County. #mosses #bryophyes #botany #ohioplants #ohioflora #bobklips

Oooh, it's "flatleaf scalewort," Radula complanata

Oooh, it's "flatleaf scalewort," Radula complanata. On Tuesday in the field I saw a liverwort on a trunk I thought was this one but then when I looked at the undersurface I saw underleaves and an overall aspect like an MC Escher drawing and realized it was just a wimpy Porella. Then I worried and wondered about this sample I thought was Radula from a fallen oak tree I collected on June 7. The specimen was in a little bag here, so I looked at it and saw the all the nice Radula traits including football-like oil bodies and discoid gemmae along the margins.#liverworts #bryophytes #ohiobotany #ohioplants #bobklips #botany

This small moss covering a low flat rock in a sout

This small moss covering a low flat rock in a southern Ohio (Hocking County) woodland is "adnate hairy-gray moss," Homomallium adnatum. Leaf-wise it looks a lot like Platygyrium repens, but the sporophyte capsules are curved, not straight. #bryophytes #mosses #moss #ohiobotany #plants #flora #bobklips

That bryophyte covering a patch of ground a meter

That bryophyte covering a patch of ground a meter across --it's a liverwort, and a very small one indeed! Methinks it be Cephalozia connivens. This he microscope view is 2.5 mm across. It was seen Saturday at the base of a wooded hillside in southern Ohio where in the 1980's there was coal mining, so this could be characterized as an acid mine drainage seep. #ohioplants #botany #bryophytes #liverworts #bobklips

That bryophyte covering a patch of ground a meter

That bryophyte covering a patch of ground a meter across --it's a liverwort, and a very small one indeed! Methinks it be Cephalozia connivens. That bryophyte covering a patch of ground a meter across --it's a liverwort, and a very small one indeed! Methinks it be Cephalozia connivens. This closeup photo is 8mm across. #ohioplants #bryophytes #liverworts #bobklips

That bryophyte covering a patch of ground a meter

That bryophyte covering a patch of ground a meter across --it's a liverwort, and a very small one indeed! Methinks it be Cephalozia connivens. It was seen 2 days ago at a reclaimed surface coal mine site in southern Ohio. #ohioplants #bryophytes #liverworts #bobklips

I like the word "eponymous." Behold the eponymous

I like the word "eponymous." Behold the eponymous perforation in the center of an apothecium of a specimen of "perforated ruffle lichen," Parmotrema perforatum, as seen yesterday on a pine branch in southern Ohio's Hocking County. #lichens #fungi #folioselichens #parmotrema #bobklips

Scapania undulata is a leafy liverwort with leaves

Scapania undulata is a leafy liverwort with leaves that are divided into two lobes folded against one another mitten-like (i.e., they are "complicate-bilobed"), with the smaller lobe on top. It grows in damp to wet situations; this was seen yesterday on a small log across an intermittent stream in southern Ohio's Hocking County. #liverworts #bryophytes #ohiobotany #ohioplants #scapania #bobklips

There are some very similar leafy liverworts with

There are some very similar leafy liverworts with a succubous leaf insertion and no underleaves. By virtue of its small size and round, not rectangular, leaf shape, I'm guessing this to be Syzygiella (formerly Jamesoniella) autumnalis. It was seen Saturday on a damp shady sandstone rock face at Raven Rocks in far eastern Ohio's Belmont County. #liverworts #ohioplants #bryophytes #bobklips

This is a moss in the genus Mnium --the 21st centu

This is a moss in the genus Mnium --the 21st century narrow-sense Mnium in that the leaves are doubly-toothed. Of the several possible Ohio species, this one pretty well matches Thompson's leafy moss, Mnium thomsonii, by virtue of its especially sharp and distinct marginal leaf serrations and a mid-nerve (costa) that goes all the way to the leaf tip. Perplexingly, the book says this species is a strict calciphile that one would expect only on limestone, but here it is merrily growing on sandstone, where it was seen yesterday during the Ohio Moss and Lichen Association foray to Raven Rocks in far eastern Ohio's Belmont County. #moss #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #bobklips

Allegheny thamnobryum moss, Thamnobryum alleghanie

Allegheny thamnobryum moss, Thamnobryum alleghaniense, is said to "look like a stepped-on Climacium" (tree moss). It does, kind of, but unlike tree moss it has smooth, not densely felted stems, and the leaves are differently shaped (not evident in this photo). This was seen yesterday on the Ohio Moss anbd Lichen Associations Spring Foray to Raven Rocks preserve in far eastern Ohio's Belmont County. It was growing along the lower edge of a sandstone ledge near a stream. #mosses #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #bobklips

This is Chaenothecopsis debilis, one of the "stubb

This is Chaenothecopsis debilis, one of the "stubble lichens" that apparently isn't actually a lichen. Rather, it's merely saprophytic on wood, but since belongs to a group that includes some lichenized species, lichenologists include it in their surveys and collections. Growing on a dead bark-free tree trunk, this photo was taken at 5x magnification with a camera that has a 35mm wide sensor, thus the scene here is 7mm across. It's from southern Ohio's Hocking County, where it was gathered yesterday during a census of the biodiversity of a big beautiful site under consideration for acquisition by a great conservation organization, Edge of Appalachia. #stubblelichen #lichens #fungi #bobklips

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