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Leptodictyum riparium (Hedw.) Warnst.

Streamside leptodictyum moss (en)

Species

Bryophytes > Hypnales > Amblystegiaceae > Leptodictyum

Characteristics

Plants small to large, soft to flaccid, in dull or lustrous, yellow-green mats. Stems creeping or floating, up to 100 mm long. Leaves soft, wide spreading and distantly spaced; ovate to narrowly oblong-ovate, up to 5 mm long; apex long-acuminate; costa single, slender, extending ± 2/s of leaf. Upper laminal cells long-hexagonal to linear, smooth; basal cells broadly rectangular, lax, larger at insertion. Perichaetia conspicuous, leaves oblong-ovate. Capsule suberect to horizontal, arcuate, cylindric. Typically semi-aquatic with flaccid plants and wide-spreading, distantly spaced, straight leaves with costae extending ± % of leaf, long upper laminal cells, and broad, lax basal cells.
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Plants in flat, loose, long trailing mats, light green to yellow-brown. Stems 6-20 cm, flaccid, irregularly branched. Leaves erect-to wide-spreading or appearing distichous, somewhat complanate especially in branches, often obliquely attached to stem, slightly contorted when dry, 2.5-6 mm; margins entire; apex broadly short-to gradually long-acuminate; costa (45-)52-114 µm wide at base; alar region differentiated; basal laminal cell walls lax; distal cells (34-)42-117 × 7-12(-13) µm. Seta single, light to dark brown, 0.8-2.6 cm. Capsule brown to reddish, 2.2-2.5 mm; annulus deciduous, 2-or 3-seriate, cells large; operculum conic, apiculate; peristome yellow to brown. Calyptra naked.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Images

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Distribution

Leptodictyum riparium world distribution map, present in Brazil and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID 35138778
WFO ID wfo-0001168592
COL ID 3TNSG
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 5444
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Synonyms

Leptodictyum riparium f. riparium Amblystegium brachypelmatum Amblystegium brevinerve Amblystegium floridanum Amblystegium mexicanum Amblystegium tenuisetum Amblystegium vacillans Hypnum oligophyllum Hypnum sipho Leptodictyum decipiens Leptodictyum leptophyllum Leptodictyum riparium Leptodictyum tenuifolium Skitophyllum weberi Amblystegium octodiceroides Amblystegium riparioides Brachythecium pennellii Hypnum laxifolium Hypnum longifolium Hypnum muelleri Hypnum schulzii Fissidens weberi Rhynchostegiella georgiana Hypnum flexipes Amblystegium riparium var. elongatum Amblystegium riparium var. floridanum Amblystegium riparium var. vacillans Leptodictyum riparium var. longifolium Campylium riparium var. vacillans Leptodictyum riparium var. riparium

Lower taxons

Leptodictyum riparium var. brachythecioides Leptodictyum riparium var. cylindricum Leptodictyum riparium var. debilinerve Leptodictyum riparium var. hygrophilum Leptodictyum riparium var. serratum Leptodictyum riparium var. vacillans
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