Grimmia elatior Bruch ex Bals.-criv. & De Not.

Grimmia dry rock moss (en)

Species

Bryophytes > Grimmiales > Grimmiaceae > Grimmia

Characteristics

Plants in robust, dark green to blackish green, loose, hoary, readily disintegrating tufts. Stems 1-5 cm, central strand absent. Leaves loosely appressed to slightly twisted when dry, erectopatent when moist, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, tapering to acute apex, 2-3.0 × 0.5-0.7 mm, keeled, margin broadly recurved on one side, awns short to long and weakly denticulate, costa weak at base, channeled distally, projecting on abaxial side; basal juxtacostal laminal cells short-to long-rectangular, sinuose-nodulose, thick-walled; basal marginal laminal cells quadrate to short-rectangular, thin-to thick-walled; medial laminal cells quadrate to short-rectangular, sinuose, thick-walled; distal laminal cells 2-stratose with thick, prominent multistratose bands, margins multistratose and thick, areolation very opaque with rounded thick-walled cells, occasionally papillose. Gemmae absent. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta arcuate, 2-3 mm. Capsule occasionally present, emergent to exserted, brown, obloid, striate, exothecial cells thin-walled, annulus present, operculum rostrate, peristome teeth purple, deeply split, papillose. Calyptra mitrate.
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Identifiers

LSID 35146753
WFO ID wfo-0001173486
COL ID 6KSPC
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INPN ID 5534
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Synonyms

Grimmia aspera Grimmia cognata Grimmia elatior Grimmia papillosa Trichostomum incurvum Grimmia grandis

Lower taxons

Grimmia elatior var. mollis Grimmia elatior var. pseudo-funalis