The moss flora of selected villages in Makati, Metro Manila

• Main Authors: Ayson, Marie Felice F., Bhopal, Sabina S., De Mata, Mary Ann S.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1993
• Subjects: Mosses > Philippines > Makati
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/8439
• Institution: De La Salle University

A taxonomic study of mosses was done on selected villages in Makati namely: Bel-Air II, San Miguel, and Urdaneta Village from August to December, 1992. Specimens were identified based on the shape of leaves, mode of attachment, costa, habitat, sporophyte, shape of cells (apical, median and basal) using the taxonomic keys of Bartram (1939), Del Rosario (1979) and Relon 1976). Six species belonging to five families were identified. Merceya bacanili, Fissidens nobilis, Bryum capillare, B. coronatum, Thamnium negrosense, and Distichophyllum subnigricaule were the mosses found on the sampling sites. These species belong to families Pottiaceae, Fissidentaceae, Bryoaceae, Neckeraceae and Hookeraceae. Temperature, light intensity and relative humidity were measured and found to range from 22 centigrade to 33 centigrade, 9 to 5120 foot candles and 42 to 96 percent respectively. Mosses were found on rocks, cements, walls, canals and floors or those areas with low temperature, low light intensity and high relative humidity.