Crossidium aberrans Holz. & E.B.Bartram

Crossidium moss (en)

Species

Bryophytes > Pottiales > Pottiaceae > Crossidium

Characteristics

Plants 2-3.5 mm. Leaves lingulate, lanceolate or ovate, 0.7-1.4 mm, margins recurved from near apex to near base, apex rounded or emarginate, piliferous; costa excurrent, with an abaxial epidermis, filaments of 1-4 cells, cells subspheric, with several papillae per cell, terminal cell subspheric; cells of leaf base 13-51 µm, medial and distal cells 11-20 µm, smooth, with 1-2 abaxial papillae or on either side in distal cells. Sexual condition dioicous or cladautoicous. Seta 8-16 mm. Capsule urn ovoid-cylindric, 1.3-2 mm; operculum 0.5-1 mm; peristome strongly twisted, 650-980 µm. Spores spheric, ovoid or oblong, finely papillose, 9-13 µm.
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Identifiers

LSID 35158332
WFO ID wfo-0001181012
COL ID ZLQ4
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INPN ID 3912
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Synonyms

Crossidium spatulaefolium Crossidium aberrans