Didymodon australasiae (Hook. & Grev.) R.H.Zander var. australasiae

Authority

Sharp, Aaron J., et al. 1994. The Moss Flora of Mexico. Part One: Sphagnales to Bryales. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 69 (1): 1-452.

Family

Pottiaceae

Scientific Name

Didymodon australasiae (Hook. & Grev.) R.H.Zander var. australasiae

Description

Species Description - Plants often blackish-green. Stem hyaloderm none or present in patches. Leaves short-ovate to long-elliptic, occasionally lanceolate, broadly or occasionally narrowly acute, often ± cucullate at the apex, not particularly differentiated at base; margins usually recurved; costa usually prominent on the upper surface and covered by ± quadrate cells; upper cells rounded-quadrate with papillae usually distinct (occasionally very coarse) but often lacking; basal marginal cells quadrate to rectangular, seldom in distinct rows, and the median basal cells quadrate or occasionally short-rectangular (sometimes transversely elongate), little bulging, not perforated.

Discussion

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Distribution

On rock and soil at up to 3750 m elev.; Baja California, Chihuahua, Distrito Federal, Durango, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosi, Sonora, Veracruz, Zacatecas.—Mexico; North, Central, and South America; Europe; southern Africa; Australasia.

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