Bryophyta: Class Musci (Mosses)

Two basic growth habits:

• Erect (acrocarpus) forms - usually erect, sparsely branched mosses with sporophyte at the apex of a main axis
• Prostrate (pleurocarpus) forms - usually prostrate, multiply branched mosses, the sporophytes borne on short lateral branches

Like babies: small, cute, and usually wet.
Terminology: gametophyte, sporophyte, seta, capsule, operculum

Lycophyta

Lycopodiaceae
Lycopodium cernuum (Linnaeus) "Club moss" kidim en mal (growing up in the grass)
Lycopodium phlegmaria (Rock Tassel Fern) limpahr (identification tentative)

Selaginellaceae
Selaginella kanehirae (Spike moss) (identification tentative)

Terminology: strobilus (cone), stolon

Further information:
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/lycopodi.htm
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/selaginell.htm

Pterophyta

Asplenium nidus (Bird's Nest Fern) chöölik, muhlihklihk, tehnlik
Cyathea nigricans (Tree Fern) katar
Davallia solida (Rabbit's Foot Fern) uluhl en kieil (lizard pillow)¹
Dicranopteris Linearis (False Staghorn Fern) mwedil en mal (to wrap)
Nephrolepis acutifolia (Sword Fern - epiphytic) marekenleng(?) kidou(?)
Nephrolepis hirsutula (Sword Fern - terrestrial) rehdil (through-grass)²
Phymatosorus scolopendria (Maile-scented fern) amäära, sra-kwenkwen, kitieu(?), gob
Trichomanes pallidum (Filmy Fern) didimwerek (lights up at night)

¹Both Phymatasorus scolopendria and Davallia solida have been identified to me as being uluhl en kieil.  P. scolopendria is listed in one source as possibly being kitieu.

²There are some contradictions in the literature I have on the correct name for the Nephrolepis ferns.  N. hirsutula may actually be called limenkasar.

Fern Terminology

Location: aquatic, epiphytic, terrestrial
Frond: undivided, lobed, divided; stipe, rachis, pinna (pinnae); fiddle head
Base: rhizome
Reproductive: sorus (sori), indusium (indusia),

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