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Homalotheciella
Family:
Brachytheciaceae
Robert Klips
Flora of North America
Resources
William D. Reese in FNA Volume 28
Homalotheciella
Plants
: small, in dense mats, yellowish.
Stems
: creeping, loosely imbricate-foliate, not julaceous, regularly or irregularly pinnate, branches terete-foliate; central strand present, weak; pseudoparaphyllia short-ovate; axillary hairs of 2 cells.
Stem
: leaves erect, often homomallous, closely arranged, ovate, concave, not plicate; base scarcely decurrent; margins serrate; apex slender-acuminate; costa to mid leaf or beyond, slender, sometimes indistinct, terminal spine absent; alar cells quadrate; laminal cells elongate.
Branch
: leaves similar.
Sexual
: condition autoicous; perichaetia gemmiform, axillary on stem.
Seta
: light brown, papillose.
Capsule
: erect, brown, ovoid or slightly asymmetric; annulus not separating; operculum obliquely rostrate; peristome hygrocastique, modified; endostome inconspicuous, adherent to exostome.
Calyptra
: bearing few slender 1-seriate hairs.
Spores
: 18–25 µm. e North America, Central America (Guatemala), South America (Guyana).
Species 2 (or 3) (1 in the flora).
Species within checklist:
Bryophytes of Hocking County, Ohio
Homalotheciella subcapillata
This project made possible by National Science Foundation Awards:
#1115116
,
#2001500
,
#2001394
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