Specimen #4: Anomodon sp.

Anomodon sp.

Figure 1. Anomodon leaf

Figure 2. leaf of Anomodon with midrib

Phylum: Bryophyta
Family: Thuidaceae
Genera: Anomodon
Collection date: 9/8/2015
Collector: Caroline Kaylor Georskey
Habitat: This specimen was found on top of a damp log just off an abandoned trail in the old growth forest of the James H. Barrow Field Station.
Description: This specimen is pleurocarpous and growing in thick mats. The leaves are lance shaped with a midrib (fig. 1&2). The sporophyte is orange in color.
Key used: McKnight, K. B. et al. (2013). Princeton field guides: Common mosses of the northeast and appalachians. Princeton, NJ; Princeton University Press.

Pleurocarps with lance-shaped leaves with midrib p. 358
1. Plants creeping or creeping with ascending shoot tips, top of plants rarely more than 3 cm above substrate...
7. Plants terrestrial on soil, rocks, trees, or logs, or if submerged then leaves not folded at base to form pocket...
8. Leaves less than or equal to 2 mm...
9. Plants grow in tangled carpets or mats (not small clusters in line) on various substrates...
10. Shoots lack cluster of tiny branchlets at tips...
11.Plants with crowded, short (less than 1 cm), erect branches arising from creeping stems (resembling carpet pile)...
12. Leaves spreading only slightly from stem, wet or dry; capsule erect...

Anomodon sp.

For more information on Anomodon please review the following links:
http://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/Stock-Images/Rights-Managed/FHR-51622-00001-165
http://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=200002070