Flora of North America species comparison

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Claopodium bolanderi

Bolander's claopodium moss
Habit Plants to 6 cm, in thin mats, green to yellow-green.
Stems

irregularly branched, smooth;

paraphyllia, when present, squamiform.
Leaves

ovate, to 1.6 mm;

margins serrate, limbidium indistinctly present;

apex long, narrow, hair-point present;

costa ending before apex, abaxial surface smooth;

distal medial laminal cells short, isodiametric, 6–8 µm, multipapillose.
Seta

1–1.5 cm, rough.
Capsule

inclined to horizontal, broadly oval to suborbicular, 1.2–1.8 mm;

operculum long-rostrate.
Spores

12–15 µm, smooth.

Claopodium bolanderi
Habitat Rock, soil over rock
Elevation moderate to high elevations
Distribution
from FNA
AK; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; AB; BC; e Asia (Russia [Commander Islands])
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Source FNA vol. 28, p. 344.
Parent taxa Leskeaceae > Claopodium
Sibling taxa
C. crispifolium, C. pellucinerve, C. whippleanum
Name authority Best: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 24: 431. (1897)
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