Funaria apiculatopilosa

Cardot

Rev. Bryol. 40: 37. 1913,.

Synonyms: Entosthodon apiculatopilosus (Cardot) Fife Funaria orcuttii Bartram
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 27. Treatment on page 193. Mentioned on page 189.

Plants 3–5 mm, yellowish green, stem with leaves crowded at the tip forming a bulbiform spiral when dry and bearing a short antheridial branch at the base. Leaves few and reduced proximally, distal leaves 1.7–2.3 mm, concave, the blade ovate to obovate, abruptly contracted to a flexuose, hyaline-tipped awn, distal blade margins weakly crenulate to rounded serrate above, entire proximally; costa strong, excurrent with the distal end hyaline; distal laminal cells thin-walled, rhomboid to elongate-hexagonal, proximal cells short-rectangular to almost quadrate toward the margins becoming oblong-rectangular near the costa. Seta usually 3–6 mm, flaring into a slender neck, hygroscopic. Capsule 1.5–2 mm, inclined to arcuate, asymmetric, obovoid, mouth oblique; annulus none; operculum conic-convex; peristome inserted below the rim of the mouth; exostome transparent and papillose, of low, truncate segments about 1/4 the length of the teeth, endostome teeth lanceolate, reddish with a hyaline tip, obliquely papillose-striate to the papillose hyaline tip, trabeculae weakly developed, appendiculae almost absent in the tip. Calyptra cucullate, smooth. Spores 22–30 µm, nearly smooth to papillose.


Habitat: Sand mixed with clay
Elevation: moderate to high elevations

Distribution

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Tex., Mexico (Puebla), Mexico (Zacatecas)

Discussion

Funaria apiculatopilosa is clearly distinct from other exannulate members of the genus in the very long-excurrent sinuose costa with a hyaline tip. The distal leaves spiral around the base of the seta when dry, and are spreading when moist. The trabeculae are thin, lightly pigmented and relatively few, and the spores are thin-walled. It is known from the Davis Mountains in Texas.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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... more about "Funaria apiculatopilosa"
not differentiated +
acuminate +  and acute +
Donna H. Miller +  and Harvey A. Miller +
Cardot +
hyaline-tipped +
flexuose +
weakly crenulate;rounded +
ovate;obovate +
specialized +
autoicous +  and sexual +
persistent +  and deciduous +
cucullate +
plicate +  and sulcate +
yellow +  and brown +
cleistocarpous +  and stegocarpous +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
inflated +
enlarged +
rhomboid +  and elongate-hexagonal +
0.17 cm1.7 mm <br />0.0017 m <br /> (0.23 cm2.3 mm <br />0.0023 m <br />) +
Tex. +, Mexico (Puebla) +  and Mexico (Zacatecas) +
moderate to high elevations +
papillose-striate +  and papillose +
striate +  and papillose-striolate +
oblong-hexagonal +  and linear +
Sand mixed with clay +
concave;oblong-ovate;broadly obovate +
reduced +
entire +  and serrate +
oblong-rectangular +
conic-convex +
filiform +  and club--shaped +
quadrate +  and short-rectangular to almost +
Rev. Bryol. +
hygroscopic +
papillose +  and smooth +
flaring +
short;elongate +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
spherical +
superficial +
Entosthodon apiculatopilosus +  and Funaria orcuttii +
Funaria apiculatopilosa +
species +
papillose +
appendiculate;trabeculate +
lance-acuminate +
incrassate +
annual;biennial +
small +  and medium-sized +