Tortula truncata (Hedw.) Mitt.

Intermediate pottia moss (en)

Species

Bryophytes > Pottiales > Pottiaceae > Tortula

Characteristics

Leaves obovate to spatulate, apex broadly acute or occasionally rounded, short-awned, margins plane or rarely weakly recurved proximally, weakly bordered distally with 2-4 rows of slightly thicker-walled cells; costa excurrent, lacking an adaxial pad of cells, distally narrow, 2 cells across the convex or plane adaxial surface; distal laminal cells irregularly hexagonal, width 18-22(-27) µm wide, 1:1, smooth. Sexual condition autoicous. Sporophytes exerted. Seta 0.25-0.4(-0.6) cm. Capsule stegocarpic, not systylius, urceolate or obovate, erect and nearly straight, urn 0.6-1 mm; peristome absent; operculum 0.3-0.5 mm. Spores 25-30 µm, spheric, densely papillose.
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Images

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Identifiers

LSID 35113029
WFO ID wfo-0001154155
COL ID 57HX2
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INPN ID 434263
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Synonyms

Pottia truncata Gymnostomum truncatum Tortula truncata

Lower taxons

Tortula truncata var. brevirostris Tortula truncata var. illyrica Tortula truncata var. littoralis Tortula truncata var. minutissima