Specimen 16: Colypageia

Figure 1: Clump of Colypageia attached to dirt side-wall.

Figure 2: Leaves grow in two rows attached to a stem, like a typical leafy liverwort.

 (Magnification x24)

Figure 3: Another close-up of the specimen. (Magnification x24)

Figure 4: Leaves of Colypageia clearly are in an incubous arrangement. (Magnification x8.4)

Figure 5: Leaves are not lobed and are entire. (Magnification x40)

Name: Colypageia
Phylum: Marchantiophyta
Family: Colypageiaceae
Common Name: leafy liverwort
Collection Date: 11/06/2015
Habitat: In a wooded area, on the side of a a dirt cliff.
Location: Hiram College Campus, Hiram, Ohio
Description: Leafy liverwort with incubous leaf arrangement, leaves are toothed slightly. Grows in big clusters, yellow-green color. Each branch is about 1 cm long.
Collector: Linden Glaze

Key used:
Conard, H. S. 1956. How to know the mosses and liverworts. WM. C. Brown Company Publishers. Dubuque, Iowa.

Keying steps:
Pictured-Key to Liverworts of North America
1b. Plants with stem and leaves... 3
3a. Leaves in two rows near upper side of stem, no midrib, Order Jungermanniales... 31
31a. Leaves entire... 35
35a. Leaves flat, not sharply folded.... 36
36b. Leaves incubous.... 37
37b. Leaves entire... 38
38b. Leaves entire.... Genus Calypageia