**5. Taxonomic identification**

To determine the species, we first proceeded to separate the samples collected from other nonvascular epiphytes (lichens and liverworts), as well as from the bark of the trees, then proceeded to identify the samples following dichotomous keys [16], photographs of each of the species were taken using a stereoscope and an optical microscope, exhaustively describing and making drawings of the observations. Some of the samples were sent to the city of Santa Cruz in Bolivia for review by a moss specialist.

*Diversity of Epiphytic Mosses (Bryophyta) in Forests of* Polylepis *(Rosaceae) in the Urubamba… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.108284*

### **Figure 4.**

*A. Simple costae of leaf of* Daltonia *sp.; B. forked costae of leaf in* T.peruvianun *mitt. 40x; C. leaf gemmae of* Zygodon *sp. 100x; D. Archaegonium of* Z. fragilis *H. rob. 100x; E. Archaegonia of* O. elongatum *Taylor 100x; F. propagules of* Zygodon quitensis *mitt. 100x; G. Calyptrae of* Semathophllum swartzii *(Schawägr) W.H. Welch & H. a, H. Crum; H. Operculum of* Neckera ehrenbergii *Müll. Hal. I. Peristomium of* Bartramia *sp.*
