Fontinalis neomexicana Sull. & Lesq.

New mexican fontinalis moss (en)

Species

Bryophytes > Hypnales > Fontinalaceae > Fontinalis

Characteristics

Plants to 50 cm, pale green, green, yellowish green, or golden brown. Stems slender to medium, rigid; stem and branch apices , long-attenuate; axillary hairs 300-450 µm, 5-7 cells, basal cell quadrate, red, distal cells long-cylindric, hyaline. Leaves monomorphic, erect-spreading to spreading when dry, erect-spreading in 3 ranks when moist, oblong-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, keeled and conduplicate, 2-4(-5) mm; margins sometimes loosely reflexed when dry, plane when moist; apex acute or occasionally subobtuse; medial laminal cells 120-180 × 4-8 µm. Perigonia with leaves 1.3-1.5 mm. Perichaetia with leaves oval to suborbiculate, 3-3.5 mm, apex abruptly apiculate to cuspidate. Seta 0.2-0.3 mm. Capsule immersed to slightly emergent, ovoid to oblong, 2-2.5 mm; operculum obtuse-conic, 0.6-0.9 mm; endostome trellis perfect. Calyptra 2 mm. Spores 15-25 µm.
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LSID 35160042
WFO ID wfo-0001182131
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Synonyms

Fontinalis mercediana Fontinalis neomexicana