Sphagnum pylaesii

Bridel

Bryol. Univ. 1: 749. 1827,.

Synonyms: Hemitheca pylaiei Bridel Sphagnum pylaesii var. austinii (Husnot) Warnstorf Sphagnum pylaesii var. prostratum (Bridel) Cardot Sphagnum pylaesii var. ramosum Warnstorf Sphagnum sedoides Sphagnum sedoides var. austinii Husnot Sphagnum sedoides var. prostratum Bridel
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 27. Treatment on page 84. Mentioned on page 79, 80.

Plants slender and delicate, aquatic or prostrate, with a conspicuous terminal bud; dark greenish to purplish brown in submerged plants to deep salmon-red in prostrate plants, capitulum quite indistinct but with distinct terminal bud. Stems pale green to brown; superficial cortex of 1–2 layers of thin-walled enlarged cells. Stem-leaves broadly ovate, 1.5–2 (2.5) mm; straight; hyaline cells fibrillose and nearly aporose, with single small pores occasionally found in the distal cell ends on the concave surface. Branches lacking or short and slender. Branch fascicles none or 1 spreading branch. Branch leaves when present similar to stem-leaves but smaller, 0.8–1.2 mm, hyaline cells fibrillose and mostly aporose, 1–6 irregularly round-shaped membrane gaps in some cells near apex on convex surface. Sexual condition dioicous. Capsule usually immersed in perichaetiale leaves, but may slightly emergent, pseudostomata absent from capsule surface. Spores 29–41 µm, coarsely papillose on both surfaces, indistinct raised sculpture on distal surface; proximal laesura less than 0.5 spore radius.


Habitat: Weakly minerotrophic, wet rocks, poor fens
Elevation: low to high elevations

Distribution

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Greenland, Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.), N.S., Que., Maine, Mass., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Europe

Discussion

Sporophytes rare in Sphagnum pylaesii. This species is distributed as a pioneer on wet rocks associated with S. tenellum and S. papillosum, or in poor fens with S. pulchrum, S. majus, and S. papillosum. See also discussion under 53. S. cyclophyllum.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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... more about "Sphagnum pylaesii"
rounded +
Cyrus B. McQueen† +  and Richard E. Andrus +
Bridel +
Subsecunda +
differentiated +
ratio +, length +  and width +
ovatelanceolate +, ovate +  and oval +
0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br /> (0.12 cm1.2 mm <br />0.0012 m <br />) +
pendent +  and spreading +
1 +  and lacking +
slender +
differentiated +
thin-walled +
alternating +
strengthened +
exposed +  and visible +
nonornamented +
1 (?) +  and 6 (?) +
rectangular--shaped +, rhomboid +  and s-shaped +
enlarged +
fibrillose +
spherical +
monoicous +, dioicous +  and sexual +
Greenland +, Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.) +, N.S. +, Que. +, Maine +, Mass. +, N.H. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, N.C. +  and Europe +
low to high elevations +
dioicous +  and sexual +
conspicuous +
isophyllous +, hemiisophyllous +  and anisophyllous +
Weakly minerotrophic, wet rocks, poor fens +
2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br /> (?) +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
dioicous +  and sexual +
round--shaped +
inconspicuous +  and conspicuous +
submerged +
Elliptical (?) +  and Round (?) +
Bryol. Univ. +
short-necked +, thin-walled +  and efibrillose +
tetrahedral +
septate +, porose +  and efibrillose +
ovate;lingulate +
pale green;brown +
differentiated +
convex +  and concave +
Hemitheca pylaiei +, Sphagnum pylaesii var. austinii +, Sphagnum pylaesii var. prostratum +, Sphagnum pylaesii var. ramosum +, Sphagnum sedoides +, Sphagnum sedoides var. austinii +  and Sphagnum sedoides var. prostratum +
Sphagnum pylaesii +
Sphagnum sect. Subsecunda +
species +
swollen +
round to elliptical +
salmon-red +, dark greenish +  and purplish brown +
plant +, prostrate +  and aquatic +
erect +  and prostrate +