Ulota D.Mohr

Ulota moss (en)

Genus

Bryophytes > Orthotrichales > Orthotrichaceae

Characteristics

Plants small to medium-sized, in tufts or loose cushions. Stems erect or rarely creeping, branches erect to ascending. Leaves straight and not crisped to flexuose and crisped when dry, erect-spreading to spreading-flexuose when moist, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, not rugose; margins entire; apex acuminate, acute, or narrowly obtuse; costa ending near apex or rarely excurrent; basal laminal cells rounded-quadrate to elongate-rectangular or linear; distal cells hexagonal-rounded to elliptic, 6-14 µm, sometimes smooth, usually papillose only over lumina, papillae 1 (or 2) per cell, conic, 2-fid, or clavate; marginal cells abruptly shorter than basal. Sexual condition autoicous or rarely dioicous; perichaetial leaves larger than stem leaves. Seta 1-10 mm. Capsule fully exserted, fusiform-cylindric, ovate-oblong, or rarely obovate, slightly 8-plicate at mouth to strongly 8-ribbed entire length or rarely smooth, mouth puckered or capsule ± constricted below mouth; stomata superficial; peristome double or single; exostome teeth 8, sometimes split to 16, finely and densely papillose to papillose-striate or rarely smooth; endostome segments 8 or absent. Calyptra mitrate, short-to oblong-conic, base usually deeply split several times, smooth, hairy, not plicate, covering 1/2 capsule. Spores isosporous.
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Images

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Identifiers

LSID 35001340
WFO ID wfo-4000039738
COL ID 84NY
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INPN ID 198794
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Synonyms

Ulota Bryodixonia

Lower taxons

Ulota lobbiana Ulota yunnanensis Ulota gigantospora Ulota americana Ulota anderssoni Ulota chilensis Ulota incana Ulota inclinata Ulota japonica Ulota lateralis Ulota laticiliata Ulota lativentrosa Ulota leiothecia Ulota lutea Ulota luteola Ulota macrocalycina Ulota macrocarpa Ulota macrodontia Ulota magellanica Ulota mandonii Ulota obtusiuscula Ulota perbreviseta Ulota phyllantha Ulota phyllanthoides Ulota pilifera Ulota plicata Ulota pusilla Ulota pycnophylla Ulota pygmaeothecia Ulota reptans Ulota schmidii Ulota splendida Ulota tanganyikae Ulota ventricosa Ulota viridis Ulota yakushimensis Ulota cervina Ulota perichaetialis Ulota gymnostoma Ulota rhytiore Ulota angusti-limbata Ulota angustissima Ulota aurantiaca Ulota bellii Ulota bellissima Ulota brevicollis Ulota breviseta Ulota calvescens Ulota carinata Ulota coarctata Ulota cochleata Ulota crassifolia Ulota crenatoerosa Ulota crispa Ulota curvifolia Ulota dixonii Ulota drummondii Ulota ecklonii Ulota eurystoma Ulota fernandeziana Ulota fuegiana Ulota fulva Ulota germana Ulota glabella Ulota hutchinsiae Ulota marginata Ulota megalospora Ulota membranata Ulota morrisonensis Ulota nigrita Ulota novae-seelandiae Ulota novo-guinensis Ulota rehmannii Ulota robusta Ulota rubella Ulota rufescens Ulota rufula Ulota savatieri Ulota hattorii Ulota intermedia Ulota nicholsonii