Flora of North America species comparison

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Paraleucobryum enerve

paraleucobryum moss
Habit Plants whitish green to yellowish green.
Stems

1–5 (–10) cm.
Leaves

erect-spreading to falcate-secund, 2–8 × 0.5–1 mm, entire or with a few serrulations near apex;

costa covering ca. 9/10 or more of leaf base, smooth on abaxial surface, in cross section with a row of adaxial hyalocysts, a row of median chlorocysts and a row of abaxial hyalocysts.
Seta

10–20 mm.
Capsule

2–3 mm;

operculum 1–1.5 mm.
Spores

15–20 µm.

Paraleucobryum enerve
Phenology Capsules mature summer.
Habitat Usually on soil or soil over boulders, noncalcareous outcrops and cliffs, sometimes in bogs and fens, rarely on stream banks
Elevation (150-4300 m) ((500-14100 ft))
Distribution
from FNA
AK; AZ; CO; MT; NM; UT; WY; AB; BC; NT; YT; Mexico; Greenland; Europe; Asia
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Discussion

Paraleucobryum enerve is best distinguished from P. longifolium by its whitish green to yellowish green color, nearly smooth leaf margins that occasionally have a few teeth near the apex, and smooth costa. Sporophytes are more rarely produced than they are by P. longifolium.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 27, p. 428.
Parent taxa Dicranaceae > Paraleucobryum
Sibling taxa
P. longifolium
Synonyms Dicranum enerve, Dicranum albicans
Name authority (Thedenius) Loeske: Hedwigia 47: 171. (1908)
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