Hypnum pratense Koch ex Spruce

Hypnum moss (en)

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Characteristics

Plants medium-sized, pale green to golden green. Stems 0.5-1.5 (-3) cm, green to yellowish, erect to creeping, , irregularly branched to unbranched, branches 0.1-0.3 cm; hyalodermis present, central strand present; pseudoparaphyllia foliose. Leaves sometimes falcate, not strongly secund, ovate, , tapering to apex, 0.5-1.8 × 0.3-0.5 mm; base decurrent; margins plane, entire; apex broadly acute; costa double and short or ecostate; alar region not conspicuously differentiated; basal laminal cells shorter, wider than medial cells, yellowish, walls porose; medial cells 80-100 × 4-5 µm. Sexual condition dioicous; . Seta reddish, 2-4 cm. Capsule inclined to arcuate, pale brown, short-cylindric, 1-2 mm; annulus 2-or 3-seriate; operculum conic; endostome cilia 2-4.
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Identifiers

LSID 35119014
WFO ID wfo-0001157299
COL ID 3NT27
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Synonyms

Entodon subflaccus Cylindrothecium macounii Breidleria pratensis Hypnum pratense Hypnum pseudopratense Hypnum subflaccum Entodon macounii