Eccremidium

Wilson

London J. Bot. 5: 450. 1846 ,.

Etymology: Greek ekkremes, hanging, and -idium, diminutive, alluding to pendulous capsule
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 27. Treatment on page 461. Mentioned on page 444.
 TaxonIllustrator 
Ditr Eccremidium floridanum.jpegEccremidium floridanumPatricia M. Eckel

Plants scattered or in loose to compact turfs, mostly yellowish green, sometimes reddish. Stems erect, to ca. 0.5 mm, sometimes seemingly absent; simple or branched by innovations; rhizoids at base, smooth. Leaves imbricate to spreading when dry, lanceolate to ovate, acute to subulate; margins plane, entire or serrate; costa subpercurrent to excurrent, sometimes weak or absent toward insertion and in lowermost leaves, medial laminal cells rhomboidal to shortrectangular, becoming longer toward the insertion, smooth. Specialized asexual reproduction unknown. Sexual condition autoicous or dioicous, cladocarpous; perichaetial leaves sometimes differentiated. Seta short, curved at apex, rarely ± erect. Capsule pendulous and laterally emergent, rarely erect and immersed, reddish at maturity, subglobose; annulus near midurn, of 1–2 rows of small cells, persistent; operculum obtuse to apiculate; peristome none. Calyptra conic-mitrate, entire at base or crenate-lobed. Spores globose to reniform, coarsely papillose to reticulate.

Distribution

North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Australia

Discussion

Species 6 (1 in the flora).

... more about "Eccremidium"
forming a marginal border +  and not differentiated +
William R. Buck +
Wilson +
crenate-lobed +  and conic-mitrate +
cleistocarpous +
erect;pendulous +
long-exserted +
subglobose +
subpercurrent +
shortrectangular +  and isodiametric +
North America +, South America +, Asia +, Africa +  and Australia +
Greek ekkremes, hanging, and -idium, diminutive, alluding to pendulous capsule +
curved +  and straight +
lanceolate +  and ovate acute +
serrate +  and entire +
dioicous +, autoicous +, sexual +  and asexual +
obtuse +  and apiculate +
on short branches +  and axillary +
filamentous +
London J. Bot. +
crum1981a +
yellow;orange reddish-brown brown or reddish purple +
elongate +
globose;reniform +
branched +  and simple +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br />) +
Eccremidium +
Ditrichaceae +
loose +  and compact +
specialized +
synoicous +, paroicous +, autoicous +, dioicous +  and sexual +
in loose to compact turfs +  and scattered +
reddish +  and yellowish green +
small +  and medium-sized +