Funaria rhomboidea J.Shaw

Species

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Characteristics

Plants small, scattered, yellowish green; terricolous. Stems 2-3 mm long. Leaves crowded above, in a rosette, weakly contorted dry, widespreading wet; elliptical to obovate, 2.5-3.5(-4.5) mm long; apex acute to obtuse-apiculate, occasionally very short acuminate; base oblong; margins plane, crenulate to bluntly toothed above base, occasionally strongly so. Costa ending well below apex; in section rounded, guide cells 2, thin-walled, ventral cells 2, in single layer, thin-walled, dorsal stereid band weak, 2-3 cells thick, dorsal surface cells thin-walled. Laminal cells rectangular to rhomboidal, thin-walled, becoming somewhat irregular to rhombic at apex; marginal cells slightly larger, bulging at distal ends to form crenulate margin; basal cells rectangular. Seta 6-7 mm long, reddish yellow; capsules erect, pyriform, 1.5-2.0 mm long, reddish brown, urn short cylindrical or occasionally inflated and globose, neck strongly sulcate, collapsed wet or dry; exothecial cells rhomboidal, thickened, with 2-4 rows of transversely rectangular cells at mouth, stomata present on neck; peristome double, exostome teeth irregular, perforated, red-yellow, 0.10-0.15 mm long, vertically striate below, papillose above, endostome rudimentary, attached to teeth, yellowish, smooth; operculum short-conic, cells twisted counter-clockwise; spores round, 25-35 µm, brownish, weakly papillose.
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Plants small, scattered, annual, occasionally perennial. Stems 2-3 mm long. Leaves rosulate, weakly contorted when dry; elliptical to obovate, 2.5-4.5 mm long; apex acute to obtuse-apiculate; margins crenulate to bluntly toothed above base; costa ending below. Upper laminal cells rectangular to rhomboidal. Capsule erect, pyriform, neck strongly sulcate; peristome double, endostome rudimentary; operculum short conic, twisted counter-clockwise.
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Distribution

Funaria rhomboidea world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID 35145644
WFO ID wfo-0001172822
COL ID 6K44L
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Synonyms

Entosthodon rivalis Entosthodon schinzii Funaria rhomboidea