Oncophorus virens (Hedw.) Brid.

Oncophorus moss (en)

Species

Bryophytes > Dicranales > Dicranaceae > Oncophorus

Characteristics

Plants in loose tufts, green to yellow-brown. Stems 1-5(-8) cm. Leaves folded and sometimes crisped when dry, flexuose when moist, ovate-lanceolate, gradually narrowed from ovate base, sometimes coarsely serrated above, 2.5-5 mm, keeled distally, not sheathing at base, margins revolute from base to leaf middle; costa stout, mostly percurrent; laminal cells mostly 2-stratose; distal laminal cells mostly subquadrate; basal laminal cells elongate, shorter at the margins, rectangular, incrassate, alar cells enlarged and pellucid. Seta (7-)10-20(-22) mm. Capsule yellow-brown, slightly furrowed when dry, 1.5-2 mm. Spores 18-25 µm.
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Images

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Identifiers

LSID 35172623
WFO ID wfo-0001188888
COL ID 49J8K
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INPN ID 4775
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Synonyms

Cynodontium bicolor Cynodontium curvicaule Oncophorus virens Cynodontium virens Oncophorus bicolor Oncophorus curvicaulis Aongstroemia curvicaulis Oncophorus sardous Dicranum virens Oncophorus virens var. serratus

Lower taxons

Oncophorus virens var. compactus