Buxbaumia piperi
Bull.Torrey Bot. Club 20: 116. 1893,.
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 27. Treatment on page 119.
Seta 3–6 mm, straight to somewhat arcuate. Capsule when mature ovoid to narrowly ovoid, 3–5 mm, upper face with perimeter ridge differentiating it from lower face, dull brown to greenish brown, not glossy. Spores 7–12 µm.
Phenology: Capsules mature late summer–fall.
Habitat: Commonly on rotten decorticated logs, but also on humus banks, mainly subalpine but also occasionally to near sea level, mainly in coniferous forests
Elevation: low to moderate elevations (10-1500 m)
Distribution
Alta., B.C., Alaska, Calif., Colo., Idaho, Mont., Oreg., Wash.
Discussion
This endemic species may resemble Buxbaumia aphylla. The sporangium however, is never glossy chestnut when mature, but is dull and greenish brown; the exostome is in 2–3 rows rather than one row as in B. aphylla.
Selected References
Lower Taxa
None.
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arising +
reduced +
single +
spherical +
deciduous +
conic +
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hyaline +
16-pleated +
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Commonly on rotten decorticated logs, but also on humus banks, mainly subalpine but also occasionally to near sea level, mainly in coniferous forests +
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1-stratose +
ovate;ovatelanceolate +
perpendicular +
conic +
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Bull.Torrey Bot. Club +
redbrown +
straight to somewhat +
arcuate +
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Buxbaumia piperi +
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articulated +
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not glossy +
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