Rhytidiadelphus (Limpr.) Warnst.

Goose neck moss (en)

Genus

Bryophytes > Hypnales > Hylocomiaceae

Characteristics

Stems creeping to ascending or erect, 2-8 mm wide across leafy stem, monopodial, irregularly and remotely branched to subpinnate; paraphyllia absent. Stem leaves erect-spreading to squarrose, squarrose-recurved, or falcate-secund, crowded or not, broadly ovate, ovate-triangular, or ovate-lanceolate, sometimes plicate proximally, sometimes rugose, 2.1-4.9 mm; base not or slightly decurrent; margins serrulate to nearly entire proximally, serrulate distally; apex acuminate; costa double, short or to 2/3 leaf length; alar cells not differentiated, or shorter, wider than basal cells; laminal cells smooth or coarsely prorate. Branch leaves ovate to narrowly lanceolate. Capsule horizontal; operculum conic; exostome teeth cross striolate to reticulate; endostome segments broadly perforate.
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Images

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Identifiers

LSID 35001135
WFO ID wfo-4000033191
COL ID 79T2
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INPN ID 197212
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Synonyms

Rhytidiadelphus Hylocomiadelphus

Lower taxons

Rhytidiadelphus japonicus Rhytidiadelphus subpinnatus Rhytidiadelphus loreus Rhytidiadelphus printzii Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus