Fontinalis antipyretica Hedw.

Antifever fontinalis moss (en)

Species

Bryophytes > Hypnales > Fontinalaceae > Fontinalis

Characteristics

Plants to 40 cm, yellow-red, yellowish green, green, dark green, or brown. Stems slender to occasionally robust, rigid; stem and branch apices , short-attenuate, ; axillary hairs to 820 µm, 6-10 cells, basal cell quadrate, red, distal cells long-cylindric, hyaline. Leaves monomorphic, imbricate to erect-appressed when dry, erect to erect-spreading in 3 ranks when moist, ovate, oblong-ovate, ovate-lanceolate, or suborbiculate, keeled and conduplicate, concave, , 2-8 mm; margins occasionally broadly reflexed on one side proximally; apex acute, broadly acute, or rounded obtuse; medial laminal cells 100-150 × 12-18µm. Perigonia with leaves 1.2-1.4 mm. Perichaetia with leaves oval to suborbiculate, 2-3 mm, apex obtuse. Seta0.2-0.3 mm. Capsule immersed to slightly emergent, ovoid to subcylindric, 2-2.7 mm; operculum obtuse-conic, 0.7-1.5 mm; endostome trellis perfect. Calyptra 1.3-1.6 mm. Spores 14-20 µm.
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Foliage retention evergreen
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Mature width (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Mature height (meter) 0.25 - 0.45
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Light 1-9
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Soil acidity 2-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-8

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Can be grown by divisions.
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Images

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Distribution

Fontinalis antipyretica world distribution map, present in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID 35159847
WFO ID wfo-0001182045
COL ID 6JDKW
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 5084
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Synonyms

Fontinalis antipyretica f. arvernica Fontinalis dolosa Fontinalis gothica Fontinalis gracilis Fontinalis longifolia Fontinalis minor Fontinalis sparsifolia Fontinalis triangularis Fontinalis antipyretica Fontinalis arvernica Fontinalis californica Fontinalis cavifolia Fontinalis islandica Fontinalis androgyna Fontinalis antipyretica var. azorica Fontinalis antipyretica var. californica Fontinalis antipyretica var. yezoana Fontinalis antipyretica var. antipyretica

Lower taxons

Fontinalis antipyretica subsp. lachenaudii Fontinalis antipyretica var. heldreichii Fontinalis antipyretica var. livonica Fontinalis antipyretica var. mollis Fontinalis antipyretica var. oreganensis Fontinalis antipyretica var. tenuis