Sample # 6

Name: Sphagnum palustre

Family: Sphagnaceae

Collection Date:- 10-12-2011

Habitat: on damp area next to a stream

Location: Field Station

Description: Medium sized green plants, grow on soil

Collector: Getachew Hatsey

Key Used: Conard, H.S. and P.L. Redfearn, Jr. 1979. How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, Boston, Mass.

1a. Plants with stems and leaves; leaves equally spaced around the stem or, if in two opposite rows, leaf cells enlongate or isodiametric and rhizoids multicellular; sporophyte persisting for weeks or months with no elaters present in the capsule. Class III MUSCL…2

2a. Plants with many spreading, recruved branches along the stem and clustered at the tip; leaf cells in one layer, of two kinds of cells forming the meshes of a network enclosing large rhomboidal hyaline cells…(p. 24)…Subclass 1. Sphagnidae

Subclass 1 – Sphagnidae

1a. Cortical (outer) cells of the stem and branches with fibril-bands….2

2b. Green cells of branches leaves entirely enclosed by the colorless (empty) cells or exposed equally on both surfaces...4

4b. Green cells of the branch-leaves isosceles-triangular in section. A-C. …Sphagnum palustre L.

"Shaded to open wet acid soil and stream banks, New founded southward to the Gulf Coast, west to Illinois and Alaska." (Conrad and Redfearn, 1979)


Links
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SPPA70
http://eol.org/pages/373667/overview
http://www.azoresbioportal.angra.uac.pt/listagens.php?lang=pt&sstr=3&id=C00426