Hypnum fauriei

Cardot

Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 17: 41, fig. 26. 1904.

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 28. Treatment on page 540. Mentioned on page 533, 534, 549.

Plants medium-sized, yellowish-brown to brownish green. Stems 4–8 cm, reddish to yellowish, creeping, often densely branched, regularly to irregularly pinnate, branches 1 cm; hyalodermis absent, epidermis sometimes present, interrupted, especially at leaf decurrencies, central strand weak; pseudoparaphyllia foliose, triangular to lanceolate, margins entire. Stem-leaves falcate to circinate, broadly ovate, tapering to apex, 1.4 (–2.2) × 0.4 (–0.8) mm; base decurrent, not auriculate; margins excavate in alar region, crenate to entire or toothed in acumen; acumen slender; costa double and short or sometimes absent; alar cells rectangular to quadrate, region weakly defined, sometimes with rectangular decurrent cells at insertion; basal laminal cells shorter, thicker than medial cells, not pigmented, walls porose; medial cells 50–70 (–80) × 3–5 µm. Sexual condition autoicous; inner perichaetial leaves weakly striate. Seta reddish or yellowish, 3–4 cm. Capsule inclined to horizontal, brown when mature, cylindric, 2–3 × 0.9–1 mm; annulus 3-seriate; operculum conic-apiculate; endostome cilia 2 or 3.


Phenology: Capsules mature Jun–Jul.
Habitat: Tree bases, stumps, rotten logs, humus, rock, mixed forests
Elevation: low to high elevations (0-2000 m)

Distribution

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N.B., N.S., Ont., Que., Ga., Maine, Mich., Minn., N.H., N.Y., N.C., Pa., Tenn., Vt., Va., W.Va., e Asia (Altai Mountains), e Asia (Japan), e Asia (Korea), e Asia (Russia)

Discussion

Hypnum fauriei is found at lower elevations in the northern part of the range but at higher elevations in the mountains southward. The species has posed difficulties since its early report from North America as H. fertile, a species restricted to Europe. Hypnum fauriei appears to be uncommon, but superficial examination could allow misidentification as H. imponens or H. plicatulum. The larger number of alar cells, often delimited by pigmented cells nearby, the erect capsules, and the broad, foliose, toothed pseudoparaphyllia easily distinguish H. imponens from H. fauriei, which has occasional triangular to lanceolate pseudoparaphyllia and inclined capsules. Hypnum plicatulum has few alar cells, but the leaf bases are somewhat to strongly auriculate, the plants are yellow-green, and the hyalodermous stem cells are apparent, all features absent in H. fauriei. Hypnum fauriei is the correct name for specimens named H. fertile by American authors. Plants of H. fauriei have branches 1.3 mm wide and are often attached to the substrate by many rhizoids; the leaf bases are yellowish brown and have few (1–3) often bulging alar cells; the two or three supra-alar cells are subquadrate to rectangular; the medial laminal cells are linear to slightly vermicular; and the endostome segments have large perforations.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Hypnum fauriei"
slender +
differentiated +
acuminate;acute;acuminate +
Wilfred B. Schofield† +
Cardot +
not auriculate +  and decurrent +
ovate +  and not undulate +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
cucullate +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
inclined +  and horizontal +
cylindric +
constricted +
0.09 cm0.9 mm <br />9.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
similar +  and pigmented +
decurrent;rectangular;rectangular;quadrate +
enlarged +
differentiated +
rudimentary +
ecostate +  and obscure +
dioicous +, autoicous +, sexual +  and asexual +
N.B. +, N.S. +, Ont. +, Que. +, Ga. +, Maine +, Mich. +, Minn. +, N.H. +, N.Y. +, N.C. +, Pa. +, Tenn. +, Vt. +, Va. +, W.Va. +, e Asia (Altai Mountains) +, e Asia (Japan) +, e Asia (Korea) +  and e Asia (Russia) +
low to high elevations (0-2000 m) +
fused +  and free +
filamentous +
Tree bases, stumps, rotten logs, humus, rock, mixed forests +
ovate +  and lanceolate or subulate +
0 (?) +  and 1/4 (?) +
distinct +
crenate +  and entire or toothed +
dioicous +, autoicous +  and sexual +
autoicous +  and sexual +
conic +  and rounded-mammillate +
Capsules mature Jun–Jul. +
triangular;lanceolate +
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. +
papillose +  and smooth +
yellowish +  and reddish +
elongate +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
0.14 cm1.4 mm <br />0.0014 m <br /> (0.22 cm2.2 mm <br />0.0022 m <br />) +
0.04 cm0.4 mm <br />4.0e-4 m <br /> (0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br />) +
tapering +, ovate +, falcate +  and circinate +
often densely branched +  and regularly irregularly pinnate +
2-pinnate or irregularly branched +  and 1-pinnate +
falcate-secund +
reddish +  and yellowish +
straight +
creeping +  and erect +
ovate +  and not undulate +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (?) +  and 8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> (?) +
differentiated +
Breidleria +, Drepanium +, Pseudostereodon +  and Stereodon +
Hypnum fauriei +
species +
yellowish-brown +  and brownish green +
dull +  and glossy +