Pohlia cruda |
Pohlia vexans |
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opal pohlia, opal thread-moss, pohlia moss |
pohlia moss |
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Habit | Plants medium-sized to large, green, whitish, or sometimes bluish tinged, shiny. | Plants small, green to reddish, very glossy. |
Stems | 0.5–2.5 cm. |
0.5–1.5 cm, cherry red. |
Leaves | erect to ± spreading, lanceolate to elliptic, 0.8–2 mm; margins serrulate to serrate in distal 1/3; costa subpercurrent; distal medial laminal cells linear-rhomboidal, vermicular, firm, 70–140 µm, walls thin. |
stiffly erect and ± imbricate to erect-spreading, lanceolate, 0.6–1.3 mm; base not or scarcely decurrent; margins weakly serrulate in distal 1/3; costa ending well before apex; distal medial laminal cells broadly rhomboidal, 65–110 µm, walls thin. |
Seta | orange to orange-brown. |
orange-brown. |
Sexual condition | paroicous, rarely dioicous; perigonial leaves in dioicous plants linear- or long-lanceolate from ovate base; perichaetial leaves strongly or rarely weakly differentiated, linear-lanceolate. |
dioicous; perigonial leaves to 3 mm; perichaetial leaves somewhat differentiated, lanceolate. |
Capsule | inclined 10–135°, stramineous to orange-brown, long- and slender-pyriform, neck 1/2 urn length; exothecial cells elongate-rectangular, walls straight; stomata superficial; annulus present; operculum conic; exostome teeth yellow-brown to red-brown, acute-triangular; endostome hyaline, basal membrane 1/2 exostome length, segments broadly keeled, broadly perforate, cilia short to long. |
inclined ± 180°, brown to red-brown, sometimes stramineous, short-pyriform to urceolate, neck less than 1/3 urn length; exothecial cells isodiametric, walls sinuate; stomata immersed; annulus absent; operculum short- to long-conic; exostome teeth yellow to light brown, triangular-acute; endostome yellow to yellow-brown, basal membrane 1/2 exostome length or slightly longer, segments tapered apically, distinctly keeled, broadly perforate, cilia long, nodulose. |
Spores | 18–26 µm, ± coarsely papillose. |
15–21 µm, finely roughened. |
Specialized | asexual reproduction absent. |
asexual reproduction absent. |
Pohlia cruda |
Pohlia vexans |
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Phenology | Capsules mature summer (Jun–Aug). | Capsules mature spring (Apr–Jun). |
Habitat | Soil banks, rock crevices, under roots, tundra soil and paths | Disturbed clay or rarely sandy soil, path banks, along streams |
Elevation | moderate to high elevations | low to moderate elevations |
Distribution |
AK; AZ; CA; CO; IA; ID; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MT; NC; NE; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OR; PA; SD; TN; UT; VA; VT; WA; WV; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NL; NS; NT; NU; ON; QC; SK; YT; Mexico; South America; Australia; Greenland; Pacific Islands; Eurasia; Antarctica
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AK; MT; WA; AB; BC; MB; NT; Europe |
Discussion | Pohlia cruda is distinguished by the glossy, pale green to whitish or bluish leaves that are narrowly elliptic to lanceolate; the laminal cells are long and narrowly linear-vermicular; the perichaetial leaves are strongly differentiated and linear-lanceolate; the sporophytes have necks about as long as the urn, with long-tapered exostome teeth, broadly keeled and perforate segments, and short to long cilia. Along with P. nutans, P. cruda is one of the most common North American species of the genus. Unlike P. nutans, P. cruda is restricted to northern and montane sites where it grows in rock crevices and on soil banks. The leaves of this species are sometimes slightly complanate. The gametophytes can be unisexual (dioicous) or bisexual (paroicous). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Pohlia vexans is a slender species characterized by abundant, elongate sterile shoots with erect, rather glossy leaves. The exostome teeth are pale brown. The species is common on moist calcareous clays in cold continental regions of northwestern North America. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 28, p. 198. | FNA vol. 28, p. 212. |
Parent taxa | Mielichhoferiaceae > Pohlia | Mielichhoferiaceae > Pohlia |
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Synonyms | Mnium crudum | Mniobryum vexans |
Name authority | (Hedwig) Lindberg: Musc. Scand., 18. (1879) | (Limpricht) H. Lindberg: Acta Soc. Fauna Fl. Fenn. 16(5): 20. (1899) |
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