Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria - Brotherella recurvans

Brotherella recurvans (Michx.) M. Fleisch.
Family: Pylaisiadelphaceae recurved brotherella moss [Brotherella delicatula (James) Fleisch., more] Wayne Lampa	Flora of North America Resources Wilfred B. Schofield in FNA Volume 28 Brotherella recurvans Plants: medium-sized, in dense mats, pale green to yellow-green. Stems: 2–6 cm, 1.5–2 mm wide across main leafy shoot, markedly complanate-foliate, subpinnate to irregularly branched, strongly falcate-secund toward substrate at stem and branch apices; pseudoparaphyllia narrowly to lanceolate-filamentous. Leaves: falcate-secund, ovate, tapering to apex, 1–1.5 mm; margins toothed in acumen; alar cells 3 or 4, yellowish. Sexual: condition dioicous. Seta: light brown, 1–1.5 cm. Capsule: inclined, oblong-cylindric, somewhat asymmetric; operculum short-rostrate. Phenology: Capsules mature late fall. Logs, humus, tree trunks, rock, forests. low to high elevations. N.B., Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.), N.S., Ont., P.E.I., Que., Ala., Conn., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., Mo., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., S.C., Tenn., Vt., Va., W.Va., Wis. Brotherella recurvans resembles Pseudotaxiphyllum elegans (Hypnaceae) superficially, but is generally larger and has inflated alar cells and a toothed apiculus. Branches and main shoots of B. recurvans bear leaves of similar size and areolation, and branching tends to be irregular. The laminal cells are usually linear to sinuate-linear.
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