Lescuraea saxicola (Schimp.) Molendo

Lescuraea moss (en)

Species

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Characteristics

Stems golden or orange with age, weakly appressed to substrate, branches many, curved to erect, often hooked at apices; paraphyllia not much branched, sometimes nearly absent. Stem leaves not catenulate, irregular, asymmetric, weakly falcate-secund, lustrous, weakly to strongly concave, distinctly 1 (or 2)-plicate, 0.7-1.4 mm; costa orange at least at base, distal abaxial surface serrulate; alar cells smooth, walls thin, region small; proximal laminal cells usually smooth; medial cells 14-50 × 4-7 µm, slightly shorter and wider proximally; apical cells strongly prorate. Branch leaves with medial and distal laminal cells more strongly prorulose. Seta yellow-orange, slender, flexuose. Capsule yellow-orange to red-brown, 1-2 mm; exostome teeth not bordered.
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Images

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Identifiers

LSID 35139453
WFO ID wfo-0001169044
COL ID 723DC
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INPN ID 5153
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Synonyms

Lescuraea saxicola Brachythecium perrevolutum