Ohio Bryology et Lichenology, Identification, Species, Knowledge Newsletter of the Ohio Moss and Lichen Association. Volume 11 No. 1. 2014. Ray Showman and Janet Traub, Editors [email protected], [email protected] ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ LEFT HAND CORNER website and has since built one of the MAKE A DIFFERENCE premier Ohio nature websites. The take We do many things in our lives and most home message is that we all should look are important only to us. For instance, I for opportunities to make a difference on love to travel and I have visited every a larger scale than our own personal state and 51 of the nation’s 59 national lives. – Ray Showman parks. I consider this important, but it is really of no consequence to anyone else. THUIDIUM DELICATULUM var. A birder may travel hundreds of miles to RADICANS – NEW TO OHIO catch a glimpse of a rare bird. Other than Thuidium delicatulum (Hedwig) that person, who cares? A mountain Schimper var. radicans (Kindberg) H.A. climber trains for months or years to Crum, Steere & L.E. Anderson [also eventually scale a high peak. Does this referred to as Thuidium philibertii really matter to anyone else? (Limpricht) Dixon] was found along a grassy ditch, near the intersection of In addition to our personal goals, we Five Oaks and Sugar Maple Trails, in should look for opportunities for actions Slate Run Metro Park (Andreas 18104). that make a difference on a larger scale. It was growing mixed in with A great example is our own Calliergonella lindbergii (Hypnum organization. Ten years ago, Barbara lindbergii). Andreas proposed starting a group of people interested in bryophytes and lichens. The goals of this group were to provide an opportunity to better learn these unique plants and to add to the knowledge of their distributions in Ohio. As we all know, Barb’s idea was hugely successful and with her continuing hard work has grown into the Ohio Moss and Lichen Association. Thuidium delicatulum var. radicans Others have also joined the effort. Don Photo by Bob Klips Flenniken had the idea for a newsletter and started OBELISK, then single- Thuidium delicatulum var. radicans handedly produced the first several differs from the typical variety by having issues. Bob Klips saw the need for a stem leaves that end in a long tapered Pickaway County Lichens, 2014 point of 1-seriate cells. In addition, the Summer Foray. N = New County perichaetial leaf margins are usually not Record ciliate. Candelaria concolor Canoparmelia crozalsiana N It is typically a calciphile, growing on Cladonia coniocraea N soil, humus, or log, usually in wet Cladonia macilenta N places. It is widespread in the eastern Flavoparmelia caperata United States, with the closest location Flavopunctelia flaventior in the neighboring state of Michigan Leptogium juniperinum N (Flora of North America, Volume 28). It Myelochroa aurulenta is widespread throughout northern North Parmelia squarrosa N America, ranging from Alaska to Nova Parmelia sulcata Scotia, south to Virginia, and west to Parmotrema hypotropum Iowa. There is an outlier record from Parmotrema reticulatum N New Mexico. Phaeophyscia adiastola N Phaeophyscia hirsuta N It is always rewarding to find new Phaeophyscia rubropulchra county records on the OMLA forays, but Phaeophyscia squarrosa N it is even more exciting to discover a Physcia americana N species new to Ohio. – Barb Andreas Physcia millegrana Physcia stellaris 2014 SUMMER FORAY, Physciella chloantha N PICKAWAY COUNTY Physconia detersa Punctelia caseana N The 2014 Summer Foray was held on Punctelia missouriensis N June 14 at Slate Run Metro Park. Slate Punctelia rudecta Run is located in the northeast corner of Pyxine sorediata N Pickaway County, one of Ohio’s under- Pyxine subcinerea N collected counties with 82 moss species Xanthomendoza fallax and only 19 macrolichens reported. The area visited consists of young to mature Twenty-five mosses and 8 liverworts deciduous forest with a rocky (glacial new to the county were collected at Slate till) stream, trees in open mowed Run Metro Park. A new state record, parkland and a buttonbush swamp. A Thuidium delicatulum var. radicans (see photo of the Foray participants is located separate article in this issue of at the back of this issue. OBELISK) was also found. Campylium radicale (Andreas 18087), previously The campground at A. W. Marion State known from Ohio through literature Park and a cemetery in Circleville were citations was found growing on also visited to augment the macrolichen decomposing leaves at the edge of a flora of the county, listed below. A total buttonbush swamp. This is the first of 27 species were recorded, including documented record for the Ohio Moss 15 new county records. Atlas. In Volume 28, Flora of North America, this species is listed for Ohio 2 as Pseudocampylium radicale, but the Lindbergia brachyptera N location of that record is not known. Orthotrichum ohioense Orthotrichum pusillum Pickaway County Bryophytes, 2014 Orthotrichum stellatum Summer Foray. N = New County Orthotrichum sordidum N Plagiomnium ciliare Mosses Plagiomnium cuspidatum Amblystegium varium Plagiomnium ellipticum N Anomodon attenuatus Plagiothecium cavifolium Anomodon minor Plagiothecium denticulatum Anomodon rostratus Platygyrium repens Atrichum angustatum Polytrichastrum ohioense N Barbula unguiculata Polytrichum piliferum N Brachythecium acuminatum Pylaisiadelpha tenuirostris N Brachythecium campestre Rhizomnium punctatum Brachythecium laetum Rhynchostegium serrulatum Brachythecium plumosum N Schistidium apocarpum N Brachythecium rotaeanum N Sematophyllum adnatum N Brachythecium rutabulum Sematophyllum demissum N Brachythecium salebrosum Syntrichia papillosa Bryhnia novae-angliaeN Taxiphyllum taxirameum Bryoandersonia illecebra N Thuidium delicatulum var. radicans N Calliergonella lindbergii Liverworts Campylium chrysophyllum Calypogeia muelleriana N Campylium radicale N Cephalozia lunulifolia N Ceratodon purpureus Cololejeunea biddlecomiae N Clasmatodon parvulus N Frullania eboracensis N Ctenidium malacodes N Lophocolea heterophylla N Dicranum montanum N Nowellia curvifolia N Dicranum viride N Porella playtyphylloidea Diphyscium foliosum Riccia fluitans N Ditrichum pusilum N Scapania nemorea N Entodon seductrix - Ray Showman and Barb Andreas Eurhynchium hians Fissidens bryoides N Found (Alive)! Grimmia pilifera N XANTHOMENDOZA HASSEANA Gymnostomum aeruginosum N Haplocladium microphyllum I have not written a Wanted Haplohymenium triste N (Alive)! article on Xanthomendoza Hedwigia ciliata hasseana, the Poplar Sunburst Lichen, Hygroamblystegium tenax but it would certainly qualify. There are Hyophila involuta N five old (late 1800’s) records from Hypnum curvifolium scattered central and northern Ohio Leptodictyum riparium counties. There have been no records Leskea gracilescens since then and it was thought to be Leucodon julaceus extirpated. 3 SPICY FEMALES AND SLENDER However, last year I received an e-mail MALES: SEXUAL DIMORPHISM from Stanley Stine, a naturalist IN LIVERWORTS photographing and identifying lichens in the Twinsburg Park System in Summit When you think of the term “sexual County. He had found an interesting dimorphism,” perhaps it invokes images orange lichen, covered with apothecia. of 16th century Italian masterpieces of The lichen was found on aspen and he man and woman, serpent and apple. It is had tentatively identified it as the Poplar unlikely that you imagine male and Sunburst Lichen. female Marchantia, Sphaerocarpos or Solenostoma. Yet, another (as if there aren’t enough already) wondrous quality of liverworts is that some are sexually dimorphic. Xanthomendoza hasseana. Photo by Stanley Stein Archegonia (female) and antheridia (male) of Marchantia inflexa growing in separate dishes side-by-side. Photo by Linda Fuselier Liverworts, like many organisms with separate sexes, have sex chromosomes (think X and Y in humans) that are tied Details of X. hasseana. Photo by Stanley to primary sex characteristics. But, Stein while the production of antheridia and archegonia (structures where sperm and The numerous apothecia, absence of eggs are produced) certainly constitute soredia, and presence of rhizines rather differences between sexes, it is the than hapters confirms that Stanley’s secondary characteristics that are the identification is correct. This specimen focus of sexual dimorphism. Secondary remains growing in the park but Stanley characteristics in liverworts are traits later found other individuals, one of like size, color and hairiness that which was collected as a voucher seemingly have nothing directly to do specimen to officially verify the record. with the production of eggs or sperm. Nice work Stanley! - Ray Showman Liverworts that are sexually dimorphic in these secondary characteristics must also be dioicous (have sexes on separate 4 plants) rather than monoicous (with observed that females of Conocephalum sexes on the same plant). It is when the salebrosum smell spicier than males. sexes are separate that things get interesting. When plants are dioicous, Why these sex-specific traits exist is a the possibility for selection to act on question yet to be thoroughly answered. females and males differently sets the Are females usually larger because they stage for the evolution of sexual have to do all the work of supporting dimorphism.