Philonotis calcarea (Bruch & Schimp.) Schimp.

Species

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Characteristics

Plants large, in loose or occasionally compact tufts, bright green to yellowish, brownish proximally. Stems 4-8 cm, erect, simple, tomentose proximally. Leaves , appressed on sterile and female stems, secund when dry, erect-spreading to falcate spreading when moist, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 1.3-3 mm; margins revolute, serrulate nearly throughout, teeth paired on mature leaves; apex evenly and gradually acuminate; costa subpercurrent to short-excurrent, <600 µm wide at base>, distal abaxial surface weakly prorulose; laminal cells prorulose at proximal ends; basal cells rectangular, shorter, broader than distal; ; distal cells linear, 20-40 × 3-5µm. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition dioicous; perigonia discoid. Seta 4 cm, straight or flexuose. Capsule 2-3.5 mm. Spores subreniform, 22-25 µm.
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Identifiers

LSID 35107554
WFO ID wfo-0001150821
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INPN ID 4988
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Synonyms

Philonotis calcarea

Lower taxons

Philonotis calcarea var. crassicostata Philonotis calcarea var. gemmiclada Philonotis calcarea var. polyclada