Fissidens curvatus Hornsch.
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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.
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Family
Fissidentaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Plants pale-green, ± erect, with dimorphous stems, the sterile stems u p to ca. 5 mm long and the perichaetial stems usually shorter. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, up to ca. 1.7 mm long, smaller and often ± linear o n sterile stems; margins entire or serrulate, particularly at the tips of smaller leaves, bordered on all the laminae, the border generally confluent at the leaf apex; costa strong, mostly percurrent; dorsal lamina narrowed to the insertion; vaginant laminae ± equal, 1/2 - 2/3 the leaf length; cells smooth, ± rectangular, 8-14 x 4-6 µm, larger in the vaginant laminae. Perigonia not seen. Setae terminal, up to ca. 8 mm long; capsules up to ca. 0.8 mm long, ± horizontal and asymmetric, distinctly shrunken below the mouth when dry; opercula rostrate; peristome teeth deeply divided, finely papillose below, spirally thickened-papillose above. Spores 14-18 µm . Calyptrae not seen.
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Discussion
FIG. 43
F. curvatus Hornsch., Linnaea 15: 148. 1841.
F. pungens Hampe & C. Mull., Linnaea 26: 502. 1855.
Conomitrium lindigii Hampe, Linnaea 31: 532. 1862.
Fissidens lindigii (Hampe) Jaeg., Enum. Fissid. 12. 1869.
F. milobakeri L. F. Koch, Bryologist 54: 206. 1951.
Fissidens curvatus is most likely to be confused with F. excurrentinervis, but peristomial differences aid in recognition.
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Distribution
On moist, shaded soil at elevations of 2000-3200 m; Baja California Sur, Mexico Nayarit.—Mexico to Chile and Argentina; southeastern Brazil; Hispaniola; California; southern Africa; Australia and New Zealand; reported from New Caledonia.
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