Cinclidium subrotundum

Lindberg

Bot. Not. 1868: 72. 1868.

Illustrated
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 28. Treatment on page 218. Mentioned on page 217.

Plants 3–8 (–12) cm. Stems dark reddish-brown. Leaves green, reddish-brown, or black when old, erect-spreading, ± flat, not strongly reflexed when moist, broadly elliptic, ± orbicular, spatulate, occasionally ovate or obovate, 3.5–6 mm; base short-decurrent; margins plane or weakly recurved, 2-stratose or 3-stratose; apex rounded, obtuse, or rarely retuse, apiculate or sometimes not, apiculus blunt; costa percurrent, excurrent, or rarely subpercurrent; medial laminal cells elongate, (40–) 70–110 µm, in diagonal rows, weakly collenchymatous; marginal cells short-linear or linear, in 3 or 4 rows. Sexual condition synoicous. Seta yellowish, 4–6 cm. Capsule yellowish, subglobose, 1.5–2.5 mm. Spores 25–70 µm.


Phenology: Spores 25-70 µm, mature summer.
Habitat: Peat and deep organic soil to shallow wet mineral soil on rock in fens, along river banks
Elevation: low to moderate elevations

Distribution

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Greenland, Alta., B.C., Man., Nfld. and Labr., N.W.T., Nunavut, Que., Yukon, Alaska, Mich., Europe

Discussion

Cinclidium subrotundum is distinguished by its broadly elliptic, nearly orbicular or spatulate leaves usually ending in a small, blunt apiculus. When present, the subglobose capsules are also diagnostic.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Cinclidium subrotundum"
blackish +, orange-yellow +, reddish-brown +, yellowish-brown +, yellowish green +, red +, brown +  and yellow +
sometimes not +  and apiculate +
retuse +, obtuse +  and rounded +
Terry T. McIntosh +  and Steven G. Newmaster +
Lindberg +
u--shaped +
short-decurrent +
decurrent +
cucullate +
subglobose +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
undifferentiated +
2 +  and 1 +
nodulose +
excurrent +  and percurrent +
subpercurrent +
toothed +
Greenland +, Alta. +, B.C. +, Man. +, Nfld. and Labr. +, N.W.T. +, Nunavut +, Que. +, Yukon +, Alaska +, Mich. +  and Europe +
low to moderate elevations +
greenish yellow +
lanceolate-acuminate +
Peat and deep organic soil to shallow wet mineral soil on rock in fens, along river banks +
crowded +  and distant +
black +, reddish-brown +  and green +
reflexed +  and erect-spreading +
obovate +, ovate +, spatulate +, orbicular +  and elliptic +
larger +  and small +
0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
3-stratose +  and 2-stratose +
reddish-brown +, brown +  and green +
synoicous +  and sexual +
rectangular +, rhomboidal +  and linear +
hemispheric +
Spores 25-70 µm, mature summer. +
smaller +  and larger +
flexuose +
elongate +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
Illustrated +
spheric +
not dendroid +, branching +  and simple +
dark reddish-brown +
Cinclidium subrotundum +
Cinclidium +
species +
blunt +  and sharp +
collenchymatous +
8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> (12 cm120 mm <br />0.12 m <br />) +