Splachnobryum obtusum (Brid.) Müll.Hal.

  • 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

    Splachnaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Splachnobryum obtusum (Brid.) Müll.Hal.

  • Description

    Species Description - Plants small or minute, 2-12(-15) mm high, often producing filamentous, green brood bodies above. Leaves pale-green or yellowish, 0.5-1.7 mm long, elliptic to lingulate, rounded-obtuse; margins crenulate at the apex or sometimes nearly to the middle, plane or narrowly revolute below; upper cells near the apex 1-2:1, those at the widest part of the leaf 2-4:1. Dioicous or rarely monoicous. Setae slender, up to 7 mm long, orange to red-brown; capsules cylindric, brown; operculum conic. Spores 12-16 µm, papillose (granulose as seen by SEM).

  • Discussion

    Fig. 333

    S. obtusum (Brid.) C. Mull., Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 19(Abh.): 504.1869.

    Weissia obtusa Brid., Muscol. Recent. Suppl. 1:118.1809.

    Splachnobryum bernoullii C. Müll., Verh. Zool--Bot Ges. Wien 19(Abh.): 505. 1869

    S. crenulatulumCard., Rev. Bryol. 36: 86. 1909.

    S. ligulifolium Card., Rev. Bryol. 36: 86. 1909.

  • Distribution

    On wet soil, rocks, and stone walls; Coahuila, Distrito Federal, Jalisco, Morelos, Nuevo Leon, Nayarit, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan.—Mexico to northern South America and the West Indies; Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana; reported from Hawaii (Oahu).

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