Echinophyllum

T. J. O'Brien

Bryologist 103: 513, figs. 2, 3. 2000.

Etymology: Greek echinos, sea-urchin or hedgehog, and phyllon, leaf, alluding to spinose proximal leaf margins
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 28. Treatment on page 324. Mentioned on page 321, 322, 648.
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Plants small to medium-sized, green or yellowish. Stems creeping, 1-pinnate or sometimes irregularly 2-pinnate; paraphyllia polymorphous, filiform or sometimes narrowly lanceolate, branched or sometimes unbranched, cells oblong, smooth or papillose over end walls, apical cell bluntly conic by wall thickened at tip; pseudoparaphyllia lanceolate or ovatelanceolate, margins ciliate or serrate, proximal cells subquadrate, centrally papillose. Stem-leaves spreading, broadly ovate or rarely elliptic; margins plane or recurved, spinose-serrate distally, entire or distantly serrulate in acumen; apex abruptly narrowed, acumen subulate; costa surface with coarse, spinose teeth over proximal 1/2; laminal cells with abaxial surface echinate, 1-papillose, papilla coarsely obliquely blunt-conic; medial cells subquadrate to short-rectangular; apical cell 20: 1, smooth. Branch leaves differentiated from stem-leaves, spreading or spreading-erect, slightly overlapping, ± catenulate when dry, broadly ovate, concave; apex abruptly acute; distal medial laminal cells irregular, rhombic, oblong, or subquadrate, walls incrassate; apical cell 7: 1, with distal bluntly conic wall thickening. Sexual condition dioicous; perichaetia inner leaves cilia present. Seta 2–2.8 cm. Capsule with stomata present in proximal 1/2. Spores 10–16 µm.

Distribution

nw North America, e Asia

Discussion

Species 1.

Selected References

None.

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subulate +
acute +  and narrowed +
autoicous +, dioicous +, sexual +  and asexual +
paraphyllialike +
Terry J. O’Brien +
T. J. O'Brien +
catenulate +  and overlapping +
spreading-erect +  and spreading +
concave +  and ovate +
cucullate +
strongly inclined;horizontal +
cylindric +
papillose +  and smooth +
differentiated +
appendiculate +
nodulose +
slender +
nw North America +  and e Asia +
Greek echinos, sea-urchin or hedgehog, and phyllon, leaf, alluding to spinose proximal leaf margins +
oblong-lanceolate +
serrate +  and ciliate +
serrulate +, entire +  and spinose-serrate +
apiculate +, blunt +, rostellate-rostrate +  and conic +
blunt-conic +
unbranched +  and branched +
lanceolate +  and filiform +
ovatelanceolate +  and lanceolate +
papillose +  and smooth +
lanceolate +
reddish orange +
elongate +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (2.8 cm28 mm <br />0.028 m <br />) +
globose +
plicate-sulcate +
elliptic +  and ovate +
not stipitate +
2-pinnate +  and 1-pinnate +
spreading +, erect +  and creeping +
Echinophyllum +
Helodiaceae +
dioicous +  and sexual +
incrassate +
thickening +
yellowish +  and green +
small;medium-sized +