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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)

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