Pleurozium (Sull.) Mitt.

Big red stem moss (en)

Genus

Bryophytes > Hypnales > Hylocomiaceae

Characteristics

Stems creeping to erect-ascending, 1-3 mm wide across leafy stem, monopodial, irregularly to regularly 1 (or 2)-pinnate; paraphyllia absent. Stem leaves loosely appressed to spreading, heteromallous, not falcate-secund, distinctly crowded and imbricate at stem apices, ovate to elliptic, wrinkled when dry, not plicate or rugose when moist, 1.5-2.8 mm; base short-decurrent; margins entire except at apex; apex rounded to obtuse, often appearing bluntly apiculate because of broadly incurved margins; costa double to nearly ecostate, less than 1/4 leaf length; alar cells differentiated; laminal cells smooth. Branch leaves elliptic to lanceolate. Capsule inclined to horizontal; operculum conic; exostome teeth reticulate proximally; endostome segments broadly perforate.
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Images

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Distribution

Pleurozium world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID 35000989
WFO ID wfo-4000030383
COL ID 6SWC
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INPN ID 196448
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Synonyms

Pleurozium

Lower taxons

Pleurozium ehrenbergianum Pleurozium flagellare Pleurozium quitense Pleurozium schreberi Pleurozium splendens Pleurozium striatum