Fontinalis hypnoides Hartm.

Fontinalis moss (en)

Species

Bryophytes > Hypnales > Fontinalaceae > Fontinalis

Characteristics

Plants to 30 cm, green, yellowish, or pale green. Stems slender to medium, flaccid, stem and branch apices loosely foliate, occasionally tightly short-attenuate; axillary hairs to 800 µm, 6-10 cells, basal cell quadrate, red, distal cells long-cylindric, hyaline or reddish. Leaves monomorphic, spreading, flaccid when dry, loosely erect-spreading when moist, ovate, ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate, narrowly lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, plane or concave basally, 3-7 mm; margins plane or erect proximally, plane at apex; apex broadly acuminate, acute, or subobtuse; medial laminal cells 80-150 × 8-15µm. Perigonia with leaves 0.6-0.8 mm. Perichaetia with leaves oval to suborbiculate, 1.8-2 mm, apex obtuse. Seta 0.2-0.3 mm. Capsule immersed to slightly emergent, oval, suboval, or oblong, 1.5-2.5 mm; operculum obtuse-conic, 0.8-1.2 mm; endostome trellis perfect. Calyptra1.2-1.5 mm. Spores 13-20 µm.
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Images

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Identifiers

LSID 35160000
WFO ID wfo-0001182106
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INPN ID 787728
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Synonyms

Pilotrichum stroembaeckii Fontinalis camusii Fontinalis mesopotamica Fontinalis nitida Fontinalis tenella Fontinalis hypnoides Fontinalis ravanii Fontinalis seriata Fontinalis hypnoides subsp. tenella Fontinalis hypnoides var. hypnoides

Lower taxons

Fontinalis hypnoides var. duriaei