Phylum: Marchantiophyta
Family: Lophocoleaceae
Species: Lophocolea heterophylla
Collection date: 9/17/2015
Collector: Caroline Kaylor Georskey
Habitat:This specimen was found growing among moss on a damp rock at the South Chagrin Reservation.
Description: This liverwort was so minuscule that at first I did not it was in my collection until I found it embedded in one of my moss specimen (mnium).
Key used: Conrad, H. S. (1956). How to know the mosses and liverworts. Dubuque, Ia: WM. C. Brown Company Publishers.
Liverworts p. 156
1b. Plants with stems and leaves; erect, ascending, prostate, or hanging from trees..
3a Leaves in 2 rows near upper side of stem, without midrib, and with cells isodiametric. Leaves very often notched at apex, or lobed, sometimes with a smaller lobe folded against a larger one. Sporphyte short-lived...
Order Jungermanniales
31b. Leaves entire, or toothed, or divided at tip into 2,3, or 4 lobes...
35a leaves flat or curved, not sharply folded...
36b. leaves transversely attached, or succubous: attached obliquely so that the edge of the leaf on upper suface of stem is attached nearer the base of the stem than the lower edge; thus the leaf slopes toward the apex of the stem...
43a. Leaves entire, not at all lobed or toothed (bracts around the perianth are excluded)...
44b. Similar to the above, but calyptra remaining deep within the perianth, which terminates a main shoot; anteridia just below the perianth...
Lophocolea heterophylla
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