Claopodium bolanderi

Best

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 24: 431. 1897.

Illustrated
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 28. Treatment on page 344. Mentioned on page 342.

Plants to 6 cm, in thin mats, green to yellow-green. Stems irregularly branched, smooth; paraphyllia, when present, squamiform. Leaves ovate, to 1.6 mm; margins serrate, limbidium indistinctly present; apex long, narrow, hairpoint present; costa ending before apex, abaxial surface smooth; distal medial laminal cells short, isodiametric, 6–8 µm, multipapillose. Seta 1–1.5 cm, rough. Capsule inclined to horizontal, broadly oval to suborbicular, 1.2–1.8 mm; operculum long-rostrate. Spores 12–15 µm, smooth.


Habitat: Rock, soil over rock
Elevation: moderate to high elevations

Distribution

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Alta., B.C., Alaska, Calif., Idaho, Mont., Oreg., Wash., e Asia (Russia [Commander Islands])

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"broad" is not a number.

... more about "Claopodium bolanderi"
acuminate +
Judith A. Harpel +
adherent +  and free +
Hypnum subg. Claopodium +
monopodial +  and branching +
spreading;erect +
flagelliform +
cucullate +
asymmetric-curved +
inclined;horizontal +
long-exserted +
broadly oval;suborbicular +
0.12 cm1.2 mm <br />0.0012 m <br /> (0.18 cm1.8 mm <br />0.0018 m <br />) +
papillose +  and smooth +
isodiametric;transversely elongate +
not differentiated +
rudimentary +
excurrent +  and percurrent +
straight +
specialized +
autoicous +, dioicous +  and sexual +
sinuate +  and 2-fid +
Alta. +, B.C. +, Alaska +, Calif. +, Idaho +, Mont. +, Oreg. +, Wash. +  and e Asia (Russia [Commander Islands]) +
moderate to high elevations +
cross striate-papillose +
Rock, soil over rock +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.16 cm1.6 mm <br />0.0016 m <br />) +
long-rostrate +
branched +  and unbranched +
stoloniferous +
peglike +  and linear +
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club +
keeled;linear +
curved +  and straight +
elongate +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
Illustrated +
asymmetric +  and symmetric +
spreading;erect;incurved +
lanceolate +, ovatelanceolate +, ovate +  and crisped +
slender +
differentiated +
Claopodium bolanderi +
Claopodium +
species +
specialized +
dioicous +, sexual +  and asexual +
green +  and yellow-green +
small;medium-sized +