Tayloria splachnoides (Schleich. ex Schwägr.) Hook.

  • 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

    Tayloria splachnoides (Schleich. ex Schwägr.) Hook.

  • Description

    Species Description - Plants light-green, gregarious or loosely tufted. Stems 1-4 cm high, sparsely branched, green above, brownish below; rhizoids dark-brown to dark-red, up to 30 µm in diameter, scarcely branched, papillose, originating in leaf axils; gemmae none. Leaves irregularly curved when dry, crowded and erect-spreading above, erect below, long-obovate to ovate-lanceolate, rounded at the apex, apiculate, 5 mm long, 1.8 mm wide; margins serrulate above; costa not reaching the apex, green above, brownish at base, in section showing a conducting strand and dorsal stereids; upper cells rectangular to hexagonal, about 70-80 x 40 µm, those of the base rectangular and 150 x 30 µm. Autoicous or dioicous. Inner perichaetial leaves 1-2 mm long; archegonia 1 to few. Setae single, 1-3 cm long, stout, dark-orange to red-brown, smooth; urn of capsules yellow-brown, 1-2 mm long, wide-mouthed; up to 3.5 mm long and 1 mm wide when moist; hypophysis up to 5 mm long, with stomata scattered, more numerous above; columella exserted when dry; exothecial cells wider than long, with greatly thickened horizontal and thin vertical walls; operculum high-conic, 1.5 mm long; peristome teeth 32, inserted well below the mouth, dark-brown, long and slender, rolled inside the mouth when moist, rolled back and loosely reflexed when dry, shiny (baculate on the outer surface under SEM , smooth on the inner). Spores spherical, 14-16 µm, smooth (reticulate-scrobiculate under SEM). Calyptrae 3 mm long, smooth, constricted below.

  • Discussion

    Fig. 334

    T. splachnoides (Schleich. ex Schwaegr.) Hook., J. Sci. Arts (London) 2(3): 144. 1816.

    Hookeria splachnoides Schleich. exSchwaegr., Sp. Muse. Suppl. 1(2): 340. 1816.

    Tayloria obliqua Sendt. ex Rabenh., Krypt.-Fl. Deutschl. 2(3): 92. 1848.

  • Distribution

    On soil and humus, covering rocks at high altitudes; Mexico (Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl) and Tlaxcala; reported from Puebla and Veracruz (Pico de Orizaba, Delgadillo, 1984b; De Luna, 1984).—Mexico; rare and scattered in mountainous regions of the Northern Hemisphere; Newfoundland, Gaspe, British Columbia, and Arizona; Fennoscandia and central Europe; central and eastern Asia.

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