Vittia pachyloma (Mont.) Ochyra

Species

Bryophytes > Hypnales > Amblystegiaceae > Vittia

Characteristics

Plants medium-sized or large; green, yellowish, brownish, or blackish. Stem irregularly branched; pseudoparaphyllia broad, triangular to suborbicular or irregular; axillary hairs with 1-2-celled upper part, this hyaline or pale brownish. Stem leaves falcate-secund or straight, erect-patent to almost spreading, more erect when dry, ovate or narrow-ovate, narrowing gradually to apex, not plicate, concave; apex acuminate or rather long-acuminate; margin denticulate near apex, other-wise entire, with wide border of (3-)4-8-stratose cells, strongly deviating from rest of lamina; costa single or with an occasional branch, long, ending slightly below leaf apex to excurrent or long-excurrent, (63.0-)82.0-210.0 pm wide near base, sometimes with scattered prorate cells on back above; median laminal cells 12.0-56.5(-65.0) x 4.0-9.5 pm, unistratose or partially to completely 2-4-stratose, thin-walled or slightly incrassate, slightly collenchymatous, eporose; alar cells not differentiated from other basal cells. Inner perichaetial leaves ovate or lanceolate-ovate. Lower outside of exostome cross-striolate.
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Soil humidity 7-12
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Vittia pachyloma world distribution map, present in Brazil and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID 35183617
WFO ID wfo-0001195340
COL ID 5BMW2
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Synonyms

Hypnum confluens Sciaromium lonchocormum Sciaromium brevicuspis Sciaromium capense Sciaromium conspissatulum Sciaromium crassinervatum Sciaromium depastum Sciaromium drepanophyllopsis Sciaromium krauseanum Sciaromium pachylomatum Sciaromium platylomatum Hypnum conspissatum Hypnum pachyloma Sciaromium maritimum Sciaromium nigritum Sciaromium obscurifolium Vittia pachyloma Sciaromium pachyloma var. brevifolium