Claopodium bolanderi |
Claopodium whippleanum |
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Bolander's claopodium moss |
Whipple's claopodium moss |
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Habit | Plants to 6 cm, in thin mats, green to yellow-green. | Plants to 4 cm, in mats, dark green to yellowish brown. |
Stems | irregularly branched, smooth; paraphyllia, when present, squamiform. |
irregularly 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-lanceolate to lanceolate, to 1 mm; margins serrate, limbidium absent; apex gradually tapering to narrow point, hair-point absent; costa ending before apex, abaxial surface smooth; distal medial laminal cells linear-rhomboidal, 9–15 µm, 1-papillose. |
Seta | 1–1.5 cm, rough. |
to 1 cm, rough. |
Capsule | inclined to horizontal, broadly oval to suborbicular, 1.2–1.8 mm; operculum long-rostrate. |
horizontal, oblong-oval, 2–3 mm; operculum broadly conic, short-rostrate. |
Spores | 12–15 µm, smooth. |
9–12 µm, smooth. |
Claopodium bolanderi |
Claopodium whippleanum |
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Habitat | Rock, soil over rock | Exposed soil, soil over rock, logs, tree roots |
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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AZ; CA; NV; OR; WA; HI; AB; BC; Mexico (Baja California [Guadalupe Island: Ensenada]); Europe (Portugal) |
Source | FNA vol. 28, p. 344. | FNA vol. 28, p. 343. |
Parent taxa | Leskeaceae > Claopodium | Leskeaceae > Claopodium |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Hypnum whippleanum, C. whippleanum var. leuconeuron | |
Name authority | Best: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 24: 431. (1897) | (Sullivant) Renauld & Cardot: Rev. Bryol. 20: 16. (1893) |
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