Lab 12: Bryophytes : Mosses and Liverworts (and hornworts)
Lab 12: Bryophytes : Mosses and Liverworts (and hornworts)
Lab 12: Bryophytes : Mosses and Liverworts (and hornworts)
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Scorpidium scorpioides (Hedw.) Limpr.<br />
Family: Amblystegiaceae<br />
Common Name:<br />
Scorpidium Moss<br />
Baldellia ranunculoides, Scorpidium scorpioides,<br />
Potamogeton gramineus, Eleocharis multicaulis,<br />
Eleogiton fluitans, Littorella uniflora.<br />
http://users.bathspa.ac.uk/watd2/veglist.html<br />
http://home.clara.net/adhale/bryos/sscorpio.htm<br />
• Grows in submerged aquatic calcareous habitats.<br />
• Pleurocarpus.<br />
• Flacate secund leaves.<br />
• Very dark colored, often black leaves.<br />
• Plants can be very large.<br />
• Distinguished from Drepanocladus by lack of costa<br />
(central midvein of leaves)