Brotherella recurvans (Michx.) M.Fleisch.

Recurved brotherella moss (en)

Species

Bryophytes > Hypnales > Sematophyllaceae > Brotherella

Characteristics

Plants medium-sized, in dense mats, pale green to yellow-green. Stems 2-6 cm, 1.5-2 mm wide across main leafy shoot, markedly complanate-foliate, subpinnate to irregularly branched, strongly falcate-secund toward substrate at stem and branch apices; pseudoparaphyllia narrowly to lanceolate-filamentous. Leaves falcate-secund, ovate, tapering to apex, 1-1.5 mm; margins toothed in acumen; alar cells 3 or 4, yellowish. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta light brown, 1-1.5 cm. Capsule inclined, oblong-cylindric, somewhat asymmetric; operculum short-rostrate.
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Distribution

Brotherella recurvans world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID 35115623
WFO ID wfo-0001155808
COL ID 68R86
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INPN ID 770914
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Synonyms

Hypnum cupressetorum Brotherella recurvans Brotherella whitei Rhaphidostegium whitei

Lower taxons

Brotherella recurvans subsp. delicatula