Funaria apiculatopilosa Cardot
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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
Funariaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Plants up to 5 mm tall. Leaves erect, shriveled and contorted when dry, spreading when moist, concave, ovate, abruptly narrowed to a flexuose, piliform tip; margins bluntly serrate or less commonly irregularly sinuate above; costa strong, ending below the apex in lower leaves, percurrent to shortly excurrent and forming the acumen in the upper leaves. Setae up to 5 mm high, reddish; capsules suberect, only slightly curved-asymmetric, short-pyriform, shriveled at the neck when dry; annulus lacking; operculum plano-convex; exothecial cells linear, strongly thick-walled; peristome teeth short, yellowbrown below, pale-yellow to ± hyahne above, weakly trabeculate below, vertically papillose-striolate; endostome segments less than 1/2 as long as the teeth, truncate, obscurely papillose. Spores 28-32 µm, spherical, smooth, translucent.
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Discussion
Fig. 325f-j
F. apiculatopilosa Card., Rev. Bryol. 40: 37.1913.
F. orcuttii Bartr., Bryologist 31: 90. 1928.
Entosthodon apiculatopilosus (Card.) Fife, J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 58: 192. 1985.
The species is distinctive because of ovate, piliferous leaves and suberect, somewhat asymmetric capsules, as well as the short exostome and somewhat reduced endostome.
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Distribution
On exposed soil; Puebla and Zacatecas.—Mexico; Texas.
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