Ptychomitrium gardneri |
Ptychomitrium serratum |
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Gardner's ptychomitrium moss |
serrate ptychomitrium moss |
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Habit | Plants robust, tufted, glossy, green to dark green. | Plants medium-sized, tufted or cespitose, glossy, dark green. |
Stems | erect or repent, to 5 cm. |
erect or repent, to 1.5 cm. |
Leaves | crispate-contorted when dry, narrowly acuminate, 4–6 mm; margins coarsely serrate distally, recurved on one or both sides proximally; apex plane or with erect margins but not cucullate. |
crispate when dry, broadly acute to acuminate, 3–4 mm; margins coarsely serrate distally, erect or irregularly recurved proximally; apex plane or with erect margins but not cucullate. |
Seta | 1–2(–3) per perichaetium, 4–10 mm. |
1(–4) per perichaetium, 3–4 mm. |
Capsule | cylindric, 2.5 mm, smooth to weakly striate-ribbed when dry; peristome teeth divided into filiform segments, densely papillose. |
cylindric, 2–2.4 mm, smooth to slightly or prominently wrinkled or ribbed when dry; peristome teeth divided into filiform segments, densely papillose. |
Calyptra | lobes 1/2 or more length of calyptra. |
lobes less than 1/2 length of calyptra. |
Specialized | asexual reproduction absent. |
asexual reproduction absent. |
Ptychomitrium gardneri |
Ptychomitrium serratum |
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Phenology | Capsules mature Mar–Sep. | Capsules mature Mar–Apr, Dec. |
Habitat | Limestone, basalt, and other rocks, and concrete, rarely soil, logs, and charred wood, open sites, especially along rivers | Calcareous rock and concrete in forests |
Elevation | low to moderate elevations (0-1400 m) (low to moderate elevations (0-4600 ft)) | low to high elevations (0-2200 m) (low to high elevations (0-7200 ft)) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; BC; Asia
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LA; SC; TX; Mexico; West Indies (Dominican Republic) |
Discussion | Ptychomitrium gardneri are robust glossy plants easy to recognize by their green to dark green color, serrate, acuminate leaves, and narrow lobes of the deeply divided calyptra. The lobes of dry mature calyptrae often spread outward like the spokes of a wheel. The leaves are much longer and more narrowly acuminate than those of the somewhat similar P. serratum; the ranges of the latter and of P. gardneri do not overlap. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 27, p. 308. | FNA vol. 27, p. 308. |
Parent taxa | Ptychomitriaceae > Ptychomitrium | Ptychomitriaceae > Ptychomitrium |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Brachysteleum serratum | |
Name authority | Lesquereux: Mem. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 16. (1868) | Bruch & Schimper: Bryol. Europ. 3: 82. (1837) |
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