Anacolia menziesii (Turner) Paris

  • 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

    Bartramiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Anacolia menziesii (Turner) Paris

  • Description

    Species Description - Plants 1-5 cm high, in dense, yellow-green to brownish tufts, red-brown to brownish below, tomentose, ± decumbent to loosely ascending and variously branched. Leaves imbricate when dry, spreading when moist, 3-4.5 mm long, narrowly ovate-lanceolate; margins revolute above or sometimes nearly to the base, singly or doubly serrate in the upper 1/2 or more; costa percurrent to long-excurrent; upper cells bistratose, quadrate to oblong, up to 25 µm long, 4-7 µm wide, smooth or with low ventral papillae at the ends; basal cells smooth, ± uniformly quadrate to rectangular from margins to costa, 7-9 µm wide, up to 20 µm long, 7-9 µm wide. Setae 5-12 mm long; capsules 2-2.8 mm long; operculum bluntly conic; peristome none or sometimes with as many as 12 deeply inserted, smooth, fragile teeth. Spores 28-32 µm.

  • Discussion

    Fig. 435

    A. menziesii (Turn.) Par., Index Bryol. 27. 1894.

    Bartramia menziesii Tum., Ann. Bot. 1: 525. 1805.

    The leaf cells are smooth or nearly so, and those of the base are uniform in size and shape (being quadrate to shortrectangular). The Mexican plants are considerably smaller than those found northward.

  • Distribution

    On soil or rocks at middle elevations; Baja California.

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