Pretty moss 'flower' (new image added!)
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Pretty moss 'flower' (new image added!)
I've seen these little 'pod' things sticking up out of moss before, so I plucked a couple today and stuck one in front of the trusty Nikon CF 10x objective. I wasn't expecting to see _this_ on the end!
Stack of 59 images. Lens at around optimal extension for 10:1(ish).
For context this is the whole 'pod'
Stack of 83 images. Nikon 10x CF objective at minimum bellows extension for ?5?:1.
Stack of 59 images. Lens at around optimal extension for 10:1(ish).
For context this is the whole 'pod'
Stack of 83 images. Nikon 10x CF objective at minimum bellows extension for ?5?:1.
Last edited by lauriek on Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:55 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Good grief -- how completely unexpected!
I've never noticed anything like this either. Of course, I haven't spent what you'd call a lot of time poking around in mosses. Yet another place to explore, I guess!
--Rik
PS. You have some bits of streaky border showing on the right and bottom -- probably left over from the alignment process.
I've never noticed anything like this either. Of course, I haven't spent what you'd call a lot of time poking around in mosses. Yet another place to explore, I guess!
--Rik
PS. You have some bits of streaky border showing on the right and bottom -- probably left over from the alignment process.
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wow...that' s what I call a detail! Very good...here is another image with "less" detail
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Laurie, these are gorgeous images!
I hope I won't be regarded as a quibbler, but one thing about the somewhat complex and bemusing terminology:
This bulky end of the moss sporophyt (the moss sporophyt is sometimes also called sporogonium) that contains and sets free the spores, is a sporangium.
In mosses this sporangium is often called the moss spore capsule. So your photos show a moss spore capsule or sporangium.
To be more precise, the last photo depicts the peristom of the moss capsule. Mosses of the genus Bryum have a peristom of such structure as in in your photo, but I'm not sure if it's safe to say that it's a moss of this genus.
The "sporangiophor" (phorein, Greek: to carry) would be the thin stalk only, that is carrying the capsule/sporangium. In mosses this stalk is often called the seta.
--Betty
I hope I won't be regarded as a quibbler, but one thing about the somewhat complex and bemusing terminology:
This bulky end of the moss sporophyt (the moss sporophyt is sometimes also called sporogonium) that contains and sets free the spores, is a sporangium.
In mosses this sporangium is often called the moss spore capsule. So your photos show a moss spore capsule or sporangium.
To be more precise, the last photo depicts the peristom of the moss capsule. Mosses of the genus Bryum have a peristom of such structure as in in your photo, but I'm not sure if it's safe to say that it's a moss of this genus.
The "sporangiophor" (phorein, Greek: to carry) would be the thin stalk only, that is carrying the capsule/sporangium. In mosses this stalk is often called the seta.
--Betty
Thanks Betty!
Please quibble away! (With any of my ids, whether taxonomical or anatomical!)
I just thought sporangiophore sounded a lot better than 'pod thing'!
So the whole stalk/pod assembly is the sporophyt, the 'pod thing' is the sporangium, and the inner part of the 'flower' bit on the end of the pod is the peristom (have I got that right?) - that's all good info, thanks!
Please quibble away! (With any of my ids, whether taxonomical or anatomical!)
I just thought sporangiophore sounded a lot better than 'pod thing'!
So the whole stalk/pod assembly is the sporophyt, the 'pod thing' is the sporangium, and the inner part of the 'flower' bit on the end of the pod is the peristom (have I got that right?) - that's all good info, thanks!
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In English, "peristome" with the trailing "e".
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peristome .
Likewise for "sporophyte", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporophyte .
--Rik
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peristome .
Likewise for "sporophyte", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporophyte .
--Rik