Bryophyte Culture Collection

I keep a collection of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts in axenic culture. These can serve as a resource for microbial interaction experiments, genomics, and other investigations into plant function.

My current axenic collection includes the taxa listed below:

Liverworts:

Blasia pusilla (from 4 populations)

Lophocolea heterophylla

Lunularia cruciata

Marchantia chenopoda

Marchantia paleacea (from 2 populations)

Marchantia polymorpha subsp. montivagans

Marchantia polymorpha subsp. polymorpha (from 2 populations)

Marchantia polymorpha subsp. ruderalis (from 6 populations)

Marchantia (Preissia) quadrata

Pallavicinia lyellii

Ptilidium pulcherrimum

Ricciocarpos natans

Scapania nemorea

Mosses:

Atrichum undulatum

Fissidens bushii

Leucobryum sp.

Thuidium delicatulum

Hornworts:

Anthoceros agresis

Anthoceros fusiformis

Anthoceros punctatus

Notothylas orbicularis

Phymatoceros bulbiculosus

Acknowledgements:

Some of the plants in my collection originally came from the culture collections of Dr. Barbara Crandall-Stotler and Fay-Wei Li. Plants have also been provided by Guru Radhakrishnan and Nicholas McLetchie.