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Moss or liverwort species

Overview
PNW Range:
  West sideCommon
  East sideCommon
  Immediate coastCommon
  Alpine or subalpineCommon
Habitat: Widespread and common in all habitats.
Substrate: Wood, bark, soil, humus, forest floor, and rock.
Comments:
Synonymy: none
Moss or liverwort species - Moss - Scleropodium obtusifolium
Moss - Scleropodium obtusifolium
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Moss or liverwort species - Liverwort - Marchantia aquatica
Liverwort - Marchantia aquatica
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Moss or liverwort species - Liverwort - Cephaloziella divaricata
Liverwort - Cephaloziella divaricata
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Moss or liverwort species - Moss - Racomitrium elongatum
Moss - Racomitrium elongatum
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Scale: Bar=1mm unless noted
Growth Form
Fruticose: Sometimes
Foliose: Sometimes
Crustose: Never
Appressed Foliose: Sometimes
Fluffy Foliose or Strappy: Sometimes
Dangling Hair: Rarely
Erect Hair: Never
Appressed Hair: Sometimes
Stalks With Squamules: Sometimes
Stalks: Sometimes
Squamules: Sometimes
Single Holdfast: Never
Dangling Nets: Never
Lobe Width (mm): 5 (± 2.5)

Upper Surface
Upper Surface Color    (Dry) 
   Pale Gray Green: Sometimes
   Pale Yellow Green: Sometimes
   Pale Green: Sometimes
   Dark Green: Commonly
   Whitish: Rarely
   Pale Gray: Rarely
   Black: Rarely
   Olive Black: Sometimes
   Olive Brown: Rarely
   Olive Green: Sometimes
   Brown: Sometimes
Upper Surface Tomentose: Never
Upper Surface Pruinose or Scabrid: Never
Upper Surface with Network of Ridges: Never
Upper Surface with Pseudocyphellae: Never
   Upper Surface with Holes into Cavity: Never
Cilia on Margins: Never
Lower Surface (Foliose)
Lower Surface Color    (Dry) 
   Pale Green: Sometimes
   Dark Green: Sometimes
   Orange: Rarely
   Olive Black: Sometimes
   Olive Brown: Sometimes
   Olive Green: Sometimes
   Brown: Sometimes
   Tan: Sometimes
Veined Below: Never
Rhizinate Below: Sometimes
   Rhizines Squarrose: Never
Tomentose Below: Never
Cyphellae: Never
Pseudocyphellae Below: Never
Papillae Below: Never

Interior
Inside (Medulla) Yellow or Orange: Never
Central Cord: Never
Hollow Stalks or Hollow Lobes: Never
Gelatinous: Rarely

Photobiont
Green Algae Primary Photobiont: Almost always
Cyanobacteria Primary Photobiont: Never
Internal Cephalodia: Never
External Cephalodia: Never

Sexual Reproduction
Perithecia: Never
Apothecia: Never
   Mazaedium: Never
Disk Color    (Dry) 

Asexual Reproduction
Isidia: Never
Soredia: Never
Lobules: Sometimes
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