Pseudoleskea stenophylla Renauld & Cardot

Pseudoleskea moss (en)

Species

Bryophytes > Hypnales > Leskeaceae > Pseudoleskea

Characteristics

Plants small, in thin open to thick mats, green or yellow-green. Stems with branches slender, not or rarely julaceous, apices straight to rarely curving up; central strand present; paraphyllia many, filamentous to foliose, not branched. Leaves appressed to somewhat erect when dry, erect-spreading when moist, glossy, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, symmetric, not or rarely falcate except at apices, 0.9-2 mm; margins recurved to just before acumen; apex gradually and slenderly long-acuminate, hair-point absent; costa percurrent, green to yellow-green, not sinuate; alar cells transversely elongate to quadrate, region small; medial laminal cells elongate-rhomboidal to fusiform or somewhat vermicular, to 30µm, 2-3(-4):1, pellucid, strongly papillose over lumen, papillae usually off-centered to distal edge, rarely some cells prorate, walls firm to incrassate, not pitted; juxtacostal cells somewhat shorter than more distal cells, walls not pitted. Capsule erect, symmetric, 1-3 mm; endostome basal membrane 1/4 exostome length, segments shorter than exostome, cilia absent or rudimentary. Spores 16-20 µm.
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Identifiers

LSID 35143209
WFO ID wfo-0001171155
COL ID 78G4V
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Synonyms

Lescuraea rigescens Pseudoleskea stenophylla