Schistidium brunnescens Limpr.
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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2021v42a5 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A50C87EA-FFBF-FFF8-FEF6-FCB6FB4AFE3B |
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Felipe |
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Schistidium brunnescens Limpr. |
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2. Schistidium brunnescens Limpr. View in CoL
( Fig. 5)
Die Laubmoose Deutschlands, Oesterreichs und der Schweiz 1: 714
(1889).
HABITAT. — Exposed calcareous rocks, from 1650 to 1670 m. Distribution: Figure 6. This species was known from very few provinces of Spain and is here reported for the first time in the southern half of the country (Granada and Murcia provinces).
DESCRIPTION
Plants
Small, (0.5)1-1,5 cm long, forming dense tufts, pale brown.
Leaves
Straight, erect, imbricate, oblong, ovate to ovate-triangular, acute to acuminate, 1.1-2.0 × 0.3-0.4(0.7) mm.
Hair-point
Usually present, rarely absent in some leaves, with scattered spinulae, (0) 0.25-0.9 mm long.
Lamina
Smooth, in upper and central part 1-stratose with occasional 2-stratose striae; margins plane or recurved in mid-leaf on one side, 1- to 2-stratose in upper and central part.
Laminal cells
In upper and central part isodiametric to transversely oval, not or slightly sinuose, mixed with oblate cells, 6-9 µm long, basal cells not or slightly sinuose, 20-40(45) × (6)8-10 µm. Perichaetial leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, sometimes oblong, acute, not abruptly narrowed into the hyaline hair point, 2-2.8 × 0.6-0.8(0.9) mm.
Urn
Broadly ovoid to shortly oblong, (0.6)0.7-0.9(1.2) × 0.5- 0.6(0.7) mm, yellow to orange-brown.
Exothecial cells
Predominantly
Oblong, long and curved, mixed with patches of short rectangular cells, stomata absent.
Peristome teeth
200-250(340) µm long, entire to semi-perforated in upper and central part, orange to orange-red.
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