A. Boyer

Creator(s):
  • Field Museum of Natural History - Botany Department
Creator role(s):
  • Creator
  • The complete conversion and digitization of the Field Museum's Bryophyte collection: Working towards a networking hub of bryophyte specimen and taxonomic data (Supported by NSF DBI-1057418)
    Creator: Field Museum of Natural History - Botany Department
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    Description: The complete conversion and digitization of the Field Museum's Bryophyte collection: Working towards a networking hub of bryophyte specimen and taxonomic data (Supported by NSF DBI-1057418)
Current Determination: Amblystegium riparium (Hedw.) Schimp.
Family: Amblystegiaceae
Identification notes: Robust, floating, scarcely to be distinguished from var. fiuitans (L.&J.) R. & C., except for the bluntish apex of the leaves, which much resembles that in A. vacillans to which this form has previously been referred. Comparison of this plant with the type of A. vacillans shows it to be much more robust than that species with alar cells much less distinct and with the leaves more plainly decurrent. No. 355 N. Am. Musci Pleurocarpi is to be regarded as the type as it is more uniform than the Baltimore plant. No. 269 is probably best treated as a form of the same thing.
Location: United States of America: Maryland
Locality: Baltimore
Coordinates: 39.2904 -76.6122
Habitat/Microhabitat: In water in swamp by Franklin road, near baltimore,MD

Collector(s): A. Boyer
Collection Date: 31 May 1914
Catalog Subset: Bryophytes
EMu IRN: 2363603
OccurenceID: 025363e6-b694-4c83-88d0-1b8955df8ad8

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