Pseudocrossidium crinitum
Pottiaceae subfam. barbuloideae
leaves ovate to short-lanceolate, 1.5–1.9 mm including the awn, distal margins strongly recurved to once revolute;
apex rounded-obtuse below the awn;
costa ending in a short awn, adaxial surface of costa at mid leaf concave, with 4 guide cells;
distal laminal cells 12–15 µm wide, 1:1.
central strand and sclerodermis usually present, hyalodermis rare.
usually broadly lanceolate to narrowly elliptical, apex blunt to acute, margins recurved basally;
distal laminal cells if 2-stratose stacked directly over one another, walls smooth or papillose, KOH yellow or red;
costa with or without a differentiated abaxial epidermis;
gemmae occasionally present, usually clavate.
asexual reproduction absent.
usually present.
Pseudocrossidium crinitum
Pottiaceae subfam. barbuloideae
Pseudocrossidium crinitum, when the awn is short, can be distinguished from P. replicatum (forms of which may have strongly mucronate leaf apices) by the large area of differentiated parenchymatous cells on the abaxial lateral surface of the costa on both sides adjacent to the laminal insertion on the costa, easily seen in section at mid leaf and often deep yellow in color, appearing as a row of ocelli; the leaf marginal cells are very thin-walled. This essentially southern species reaches its northern range extension in western United States E. B. Bartram 1924; R. H. Zander 1993). An exceptionally robust collection of P. crinitum from Mexico (Puebla, Azumbilla, Zander 4899, BUF) has two layers of guide cells in the costa, but this is very unusual.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Genera 33 (16 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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