Ptychomitrium gardneri |
Ptychomitrium sinense |
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Gardner's ptychomitrium moss |
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Habit | Plants robust, tufted, glossy, green to dark green. | Plants medium size, cespitose, glossy, yellowish green. |
Stems | erect or repent, to 5 cm. |
erect, to 1 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-curled when dry, broadly acuminate, mostly 2.5–4 mm; margins entire distally, plane proximally; apex cucullate to subcucullate. |
Seta | 1–2(–3) per perichaetium, 4–10 mm. |
1 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. |
ovoid, 1.5 mm, irregularly wrinkled when dry; peristome teeth divided into triangular segments, smooth. |
Calyptra | lobes 1/2 or more length of calyptra. |
lobes half or more length of calyptra. |
Specialized | asexual reproduction absent. |
asexual reproduction absent. |
Ptychomitrium gardneri |
Ptychomitrium sinense |
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Phenology | Capsules mature Mar–Sep. | Capsules mature Jan–Jun. |
Habitat | Limestone, basalt, and other rocks, and concrete, rarely soil, logs, and charred wood, open sites, especially along rivers | Basic and acidic rocks, occasionally soil or wood, forests |
Elevation | low to moderate elevations (0-1400 m) (low to moderate elevations (0-4600 ft)) | low to high elevations (100-2000 m) (low to high elevations (300-6600 ft)) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; BC; Asia
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AR; AZ; MO; NM; OK; TX; Mexico; Asia |
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.) |
Plants of Ptychomitrium sinense are dark green and glossy; the leaves are tightly crispate when dry with the tips often circinate. The glossy pale or often brownish costa is very conspicuous in dry plants and is especially characteristic for this moss. When moist the leaf tips tend to be involute-cucullate and often falcate or somewhat uncinate. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 27, p. 308. | FNA vol. 27, p. 308. |
Parent taxa | Ptychomitriaceae > Ptychomitrium | Ptychomitriaceae > Ptychomitrium |
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Synonyms | Glyphomitrium sinense, P. leibergii | |
Name authority | Lesquereux: Mem. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 16. (1868) | (Mitten) A. Jaeger: Ber. Thätigk. St. Gallischen Naturwiss. Ges. 1872–1873: 104. (1874) |
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