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Myurella julacea

myurella moss, small mouse-tail moss
Habit Plants yellow-green.
Stem

leaves erect, crowded, imbricate, round to ovate, 0.3 mm;

margins subentire to serrulate;

apex rounded-obtuse to occasionally short-apiculate;

distal laminal cells faintly prorulose abaxially.

Myurella julacea
Habitat Calcareous habitats, seepages, rock crevices, fens, boreal and arctic areas, montane areas with calcareous rock
Elevation low to high elevations
Distribution
from FNA
AK; CA; CO; CT; MA; ME; MI; MN; MT; NY; VT; WA; WI; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NL; NS; NT; NU; ON; QC; SK; YT; Greenland; Europe; Asia
Discussion

Myurella julacea is distinguished by its small, wormlike habit and yellow-green color. The leaves are concave and tightly overlap. Myurella julacea is easily distinguished from M. sibirica and M. tenerrima by its obtuse leaves that have at most a tiny apiculus.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 28, p. 371.
Parent taxa Pterigynandraceae > Myurella
Sibling taxa
M. sibirica, M. tenerrima
Synonyms Leskea julacea
Name authority (Schwagrichen) Schimper: in P. Bruch and W. P. Schimper, Bryol. Europ. 6: 41. (1853)
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