Claopodium whippleanum (Sull.) Renauld & Cardot

Whipple's claopodium moss (en)

Species

Bryophytes > Hypnales > Leskeaceae > Claopodium

Characteristics

Plants to 4 cm, in mats, dark green to yellowish brown. Stems irregularly pinnate, smooth; paraphyllia absent. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, to 1 mm; margins serrate, limbidium absent; apex gradually tapering to narrow point, hair-point absent; costa ending before apex, abaxial surface smooth; distal medial laminal cells linear-rhomboidal, 9-15 µm, 1-papillose. Seta to 1 cm, rough. Capsule horizontal, oblong-oval, 2-3 mm; operculum broadly conic, short-rostrate. Spores 9-12 µm, smooth.
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Identifiers

LSID 35157758
WFO ID wfo-0001180634
COL ID VQVW
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INPN ID 5186
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Synonyms

Thuidium leskeoides Thuidium leuconeuron Hypnum leuconeuron Leskea algarvica Pseudoleskea algarvica Claopodium algarvicum Claopodium whippleanum Claopodium hawaiense