Stegonia latifolia var. latifolia
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 27. Treatment on page 605.
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Leaves muticous, costa ending before the apex.
Phenology: Capsules mature spring–summer.
Habitat: Soil, trail banks, rock wall, tree trunk, hummocks, mouths of lemming burrows
Elevation: low to high elevations (40-1800 m)
Distribution
Greenland, Alta., B.C., Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.), N.W.T., Nunavut, Que., Alaska, Ariz., Calif., Colo., Mont., Nev., N.Mex., Oreg., Utah, Wash., Wyo., Europe, Asia
Discussion
The bulbiform habit is particularly pronounced in var. latifolia. H. Gams (1934) discussed this taxon as a circumpolar, microtheric, steppe moss; R. Ochyra and R. I. Lewis-Smith (1996) provided a detailed map of the world distribution.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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more thickened +
absent +
differentiated +
bulliform +
percurrent +
flexuose +
subpercurrent +
absent +
papillose +
concave +
revoluble +
deciduous +
absent +
of 2;3 rows +
hyaline +
flexuose +
absent +
round +
differentiated +
usually slightly wider +
trabeculate +
absent +
usually ovate;oblong +
not differentiated +
obovoid +
papillose +
cucullate +
stegocarpous +
ovate-cylindric +
thick-walled +
specialized +
absent +
bulging +
convex +
thickened +
thin +
clear +
persistent +
plane +
revolute +
nonpapillose +
bulliform +
absent +
excurrent +
thin +
2-stratose +
stacked +
9mm;16mm +
1-stratose +
hyaline +
hexagonal;rhomboid;elongate;hexagonal;rhomboid;hexagonal;rhomboid;elongate;hexagonal;rhomboid +
spiculose +
filiform +
differentiated +
multicellular +
absent +
common +
asexual +
absent +
absent +
large +
Present +
differentiated +
serrate +
additional +
rounded +
contorted +
appressed +
spreading +
concave;keeled;channeled;ovoid;lanceolate or lingulate +
distal +
ligulate +
circular +
hyaline +
appressed +
fragile +
spreading +
muticous +
involute +
bordered +
recurved +
plane +
involute +
absent +
absent +
short-rostrate +
photosynthetic +
absent +
sheathing +
long-oval +
usually larger +
straight +
absent +
rudimentary +
not differentiated +
Laubm. Fennosk., +
straight +
oblique +
2;3 +
absent +
twisted +
elongate +
distal +
larger +
branching +
sheathing +
Stegonia latifolia var. latifolia +
Stegonia latifolia +
variety +
immersed +
ovate;ovate-cylindric +
often somewhat thicker +
apiculate +
elliptic +
distinctive +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (?) +
bulbiform +
brown;white;whitish green distally +
occasionally smaller than the perichaetiate +