Fontinalis sphagnifolia (Müll.Hal.) Wijk & Margad.

Fontinalis moss (en)

Species

Bryophytes > Hypnales > Fontinalaceae > Fontinalis

Characteristics

Plants to 60 cm, green, yellowish, reddish, or brownish. Stems slender to robust, flaccid or rigid, stem and branch apices tightly long-attenuate; axillary hairs 500-650µm, 5-8 cells, basal cell quadrate, red, distal cells long-cylindric, hyaline or reddish. Leaves weakly or strongly dimorphic. Stem leaves appressed or loosely erect when dry or moist, , ovate, ovate-lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, concave throughout, weakly concave, or plane, 3-6 mm; margins erect or somewhat plane at base, not reflexed proximally when dry, erect-incurved or plane distally; apex acute to obtuse; medial laminal cells , 60-120 × 6-15 µm. Branch leaves similar, smaller, or erect to erect-spreading, narrowly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, concave to subtubular, 2-3.5 mm; margins erect to involute; apex long-acuminate. Perigonia with leaves 0.8-1.1 mm. Perichaetia with leaves oval to suborbiculate, 2.4-3.4 mm, apex obtuse. Seta 0.1-0.2 mm. Capsule immersed to slightly emergent, subcylindric to cylindric, 2-2.5 mm; operculum conic, 1 mm; endostome trellis imperfect. Calyptra 1.3-1.5 mm. Spores 16-18 µm.
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LSID 35162472
WFO ID wfo-0001183190
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Synonyms

Fontinalis sphagnifolia Fontinalis biformis