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6. Heterophyllium (Schimper) Kindberg, Canad. Rec. Sci. 6: 72. 1894. (as Heterophyllum) • [Greek heteros, different, and phyllon, leaf, alluding to somewhat different stem and branch leaves].
Wilfred B. Schofield
Hypnum subg. Heterophyllium Schimper, Syn. Musc. Eur., 629. 1860
Plants medium-sized to large, yellow-green to red bronze, strongly or weakly glossy. Stems 2-6 cm, somewhat to weakly complanate-foliate, subpinnate to irregularly branched. Leaves erect-spreading, ovate to lanceolate; margins toothed distally; apex long-acuminate; costa double or obscure; alar cells quadrate or rectangular, enlarged, pigmented, walls thick, region differentiated in several rows, middle lamella apparent, supra-alar cells differentiated; laminal cells elongate, flexuose, smooth. Sexual condition autoicous or dioicous. Seta 2-4 cm. Capsule inclined to suberect, cylindric; exothecial cell walls not collenchymatous; operculum conic.
Species 1: se United States, Mexico, Central America, Eurasia, Pacific Islands.
SELECTED REFERENCE Robinson, H. and C. F. Reed. 1966. The status of the moss genus Heterophyllium. Bryologist 69: 317-323.
Lower Taxon
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