Pohlia wahlenbergii (F.Weber & D.Mohr) A.L.Andrews

Wahlenberg's pohlia moss (en)

Species

Bryophytes > Bryales > Mniaceae > Pohlia

Characteristics

Plants small to very large, whitish or sometimes in large forms reddish, dull. Stems 0.8-10 cm. Leaves laxly spreading to more stiffly erect, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 0.6–1.2 mm; margins weakly to strongly serrulate in distal 1/3; costa ending well before apex; distal medial laminal cells laxly and broadly hexagonal to rhomboidal, 65-110µm, walls thin. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition dioicous; perigonial leaves ovate; perichaetial leaves weakly differentiated, lanceolate. Seta orange-brown. Capsule inclined ± 180°, brown to red-brown, sometimes stramineous, short-pyriform to urceolate, neck less than 1/3 urn length; exothecial cells isodiametric, walls sinuate; stomata immersed; annulus absent; operculum short-to long-conic; exostome teeth light brown to red-brown, triangular-acute; endostome hyaline to yellow, basal membrane 1/2 exostome length or slightly longer, segments , distinctly keeled, broadly perforate, cilia long, nodulose. Spores 15-21 µm, finely roughened.
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Images

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Identifiers

LSID 35125039
WFO ID wfo-0001160353
COL ID 4KWLN
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INPN ID 4906
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Synonyms

Bryum austroalbicans Pohlia wahlenbergii Bryum philonoteum Mniobryum austro-albicans

Lower taxons

Pohlia wahlenbergii var. calcarea Pohlia wahlenbergii var. glacialis