Crossidium squamiferum (Viv.) Jur.

Crossidium moss (en)

Species

Bryophytes > Pottiales > Pottiaceae > Crossidium

Characteristics

Plants 6-10 mm. Leaves deltoid-ovate, oblong-ovate or lanceolate, 0.6-2 mm, margins recurved to erect distally, usually undiffer-entiated, apex obtuse or rounded, serrulate, with abaxial papillae, piliferous; costa excurrent, with an inconspicuous abaxial epidermis, filaments of 4-10 cells, cells cylindric to subspheric, [thick-walled, terminal cell rectangular, subspheric or conic with 2-5 solid papillae; cells of leaf base 11-70 µm, medial and distal cells 9-33 µm, smooth, thick-walled. Sexual condition gonioautoicous. Seta 5-20 mm. Capsule urn short-cylindric to ovoid-cylindric, 1-2.7 mm; operculum 0.6-1.1 mm; peristome short, nearly straight, cribose at base to long and strongly twisted, 198-1160 µm. Spores spheric, 9-22 µm.
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Images

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Identifiers

LSID 35158348
WFO ID wfo-0001181026
COL ID ZLQH
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INPN ID 3915
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Synonyms

Barbula chloronotos Barbula squamifera Tortula membranifolia Crossidium squamiferum Crossidium succulentum Tortula chloronotos Barbula arenaria Tortula squamifera Barbula membranifolia Barbula chloronotos f. niveum Crossidium squamiferum var. squamiferum

Lower taxons

Crossidium squamiferum subsp. griseum Crossidium squamiferum var. brevisetum Crossidium squamiferum var. pottioideum