Specimen #12   Conocephalum conicum,  Great Scented Liverwort

 Figure 1: Close up image of the liverwort and some of its rhizoids.

Figure 2: Image of a single leave of the liverwort with the connected rhizoids underneath.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-          Name: Conocephalum conicum

-          Common name: Great Scented Liverwort

-          Family: Conocephalaceae

-          Collection Date: September 22, 2016

-          Habitat: on top of a rock right on the shore of a river

-          Location: South Chagrin Nature Reserve

-          Description: thallose-like liverwort, no sexual structures present

-          Keying Guide: How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts by Henry S. Conard

-          Intro Key: Class II—The Liverworts p. 239 1A Air pores visible without lens, each in a polygonal area, capsules borne on the underside of an umbrella-shaped receptacle, with spirally banned elaters among spores, walls of capsules with ring-shaped thickenings….8; 8B Thalli without gemmae, and without marginal scales on underside….10; 10A Air pore on a low mound of colorless cells, antheridia in a warty spot on the thallus, sporophytes beneath a cone-shaped umbrella…. p. 283 Conocephalum conicum