Crossidium seriatum H.A.Crum & Steere

Crossidium moss (en)

Species

Bryophytes > Pottiales > Pottiaceae > Crossidium

Characteristics

Plants 1-1.5 mm. Leaves lingulate to oblong-ovate, 0.6-1.3 mm, margins revolute from near apex to near base, smooth-celled in the middle and base, apex round to slightly emarginate; costa excurrent, with an abaxial epidermis, filaments of 2-6 cells, cells subspheric, with several papillae per cell, terminal cell subspheric; cells of leaf base 24-66 µm, medial and distal cells 13-26 µm, with several papillae on either side of distal and median cells. Sexual condition cladautoicous. Seta 9-13 mm. Capsule urn oblong-cylindric, 1.5-2.3 mm; operculum 0.7-1.1 mm; peristome strongly twisted, 1015-1100 µm. Spores spheric, finely papillose, 11-13 µm.
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Identifiers

LSID 35162008
WFO ID wfo-0001183028
COL ID ZLQF
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INPN ID 786458
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Synonyms

Crossidium seriatum