culture: collect or field ID

Subject: Re: collect or field ID
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:24:15 -0000
From: Rod Seppelt <r.seppelt@rbgkew.org.uk>
To: bryonet-l@mtu.edu

BRYONET

In reply to Wayne Tyson:
While not specifically bryophytes, you might try and get in touch
with Roger Rosentreter in Boise, Idaho. He is a lichenologist with
a keen interest in crusts and all things lichenological.
The last email I had for him was:
rrosentr@id1546wp.idso.id.blm.gov
You might also try and contact Prof. Tom Nash, Arizona State
University, Tempe. He, also, is a lichenologist with a lot of
experience of dry lands crusts and other lichens.

Actually, I don't see what the "coffee ginder" technique that Lewis
Anderson introduced me to for macerating and "culturing"
bryophytes should not work for crusts. Instead of using a coffee
grinder, try a cement mixer!! Seriously, it probably would not
matter if the crust was broken up. The Cyanobacteria, bryophyte
propagulae and pieces of lichen crust will still be present and, if
kept moist (probably a nightly dew would suffice), a little time will
remedy the situation.
Regards
Rod Seppelt

Prof. Rod Seppelt
(ABLO), Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB