Claopodium bolanderi |
Claopodium crispifolium |
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Bolander's claopodium moss |
claopodium moss, crisp-leaf rough moss, rough-moss |
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Habit | Plants to 6 cm, in thin mats, green to yellow-green. | Plants 4–8 cm, in loose mats, green to yellowish, often appearing brownish. |
Stems | irregularly branched, smooth; paraphyllia, when present, squamiform. |
± pinnate, smooth; paraphyllia absent. |
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. |
ovate, to 3 mm; margins serrate, limbidium present; apex long-acuminate, hair-point present; costa ending before apex, abaxial surface smooth; distal medial laminal cells hexagonal or subquadrate, 8–9 µm, 1-papillose. |
Seta | 1–1.5 cm, rough. |
1–2 cm, rough. |
Capsule | inclined to horizontal, broadly oval to suborbicular, 1.2–1.8 mm; operculum long-rostrate. |
inclined to almost horizontal, oblong, 1.5–3 mm; operculum long-rostrate. |
Spores | 12–15 µm, smooth. |
9–12 µm, smooth. |
Claopodium bolanderi |
Claopodium crispifolium |
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Habitat | Rock, soil over rock | Rotten logs, tree bases, soil over rock |
Elevation | moderate to high elevations | low to moderate elevations |
Distribution |
AK; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; AB; BC; e Asia (Russia [Commander Islands])
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AK; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; AB; BC; e Asia (Japan, Russian Far East)
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Source | FNA vol. 28, p. 344. | FNA vol. 28, p. 344. |
Parent taxa | Leskeaceae > Claopodium | Leskeaceae > Claopodium |
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Synonyms | Hypnum crispifolium | |
Name authority | Best: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 24: 431. (1897) | (Hooker) Renauld & Cardot: Rev. Bryol. 20: 16. (1893) |
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