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Moss ID help request

Posted by wyanokie NJ (My Page) on
Sat, Aug 11, 07 at 20:31

Hello, can anyone help me identify this moss? It grows in the woods beside my house in northern New Jersey. There are many clumps and most seem to have their sporophytes up at the moment

http://www.pbase.com/mshields/image/83714669

Thanks,
Wyanokie


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RE: Moss ID help request

Looks like a Polystichum species to me but I could be wrong:
check out these sites and maybe you will run across it.
>MOSSES & LIVERWORTS
>>IMAGES
https://www.csun.edu/~hcbio028/
http://www.ualberta.ca/~mjs14/bryopics/index.htm
http://www.milueth.de/Moose/
http://www.kuleuven-kortrijk.be/facult/wet/biologie/pb/kulakbiocampus/ images/buiten-kulak/mossen/Atrichum undulatum - Groot rimpelmo s/index.htm
http://dereila.ca/woods/page1.html
http://www.hainaultforest.co.uk/4Moss Photographs.htm
http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/articles/4/
http://www.ontariowildflower.com/moss.htm#top
http://bryophytes.plant.siu.edu/mossimage.html
http://www2.una.edu/pdavis/mosses_to_know_in_the_field.htm
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~fredr/Bryos.htm
http://home.clara.net/adhale/bryos/phframe.htm
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/stewardship/pubs/mosses_liverworts/mosses_live rworts.htm

Also The University of Southern Illinois has a great bryology department and you may want to contact the leading
bryologist there.


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