Organics

Id	Identification Type	Name	Description	Distinguishing Features	Tags
160	Plant	Carbonized Organic Matter
78	Plant	Charcoal	Fragmentary remains of combusted organic matter, recognized by fully black color, sharp grain boundaries, brittle fracture, and frequently a sparkly surface reflectance when viewed in reflected light.
140	Plant	Mycorrhizae
99	Plant	Phytolith	Phytoliths are literally “plant stones”, and can include deposits of amorphous silica or calcium oxylate. For purposes of this site, we will be considering deposits of amorphous silica, deposited as secondary cell walls within plants. Grasses are the source of most of the phytoliths found on smear slides, however sedges, cattails, and horsetail are also prolific producers of phytoliths. The cell walls are three-dimensional bodies, only two of which are easily seen in bright field microscopy. Phytoliths will appear as transparent to translucent isotropic shapes, including circular, oval, cylindrical, dendritic, rectangular, triangular, or lobed. Phytoliths, like other solid amorphous silica components, can appear purplish in plane polarized light. Nonpleochroic, isotropic. Moderate relief.	Isotropic Transparent	colorless purplish dendritic circular triangular lobed
82	Plant	Plant
136	Plant	Plant Macrofossil
96	Plant	Pollen
162	Plant	Thick Plant Matter

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