Liverwort #2

Figure 2: Pores

Name: Conocephalum conicum
Common name: none
Family: Conocephalaceae
Collection date: September 15, 2016
Habitat: Rotted Log
Location: Nelson Ledges

Description: Leafy liverwort with no gemmae present. Flattened and thalli present.

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

Keying Steps:

Introduction Key....19
1b-Plants thalloid....4
4b-plants thalloid or leafy, more than one chloroplast....5
5a-Flattened....6
6a-Opaque thallus.... Marchantiales (239)

Key to Genera

1a-visible without lens....8
8b- thalli without gemmae....10
10a- air pore on a low mound of colorless cell....Conocephalum (283)

Conocephalum conicum