Chaetomitrium Fimbriatum

• Main Authors: Monica Suleiman, Hiroyuki Akiyama
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: QK1-989 Botany; SH388.7-391.5 Algae culture
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/32314/3/Plate%2011%20%28SPECIMEN%29.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/32314/; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272747174_Malesian_Chaetomitrium_Symphyodontaceae_Musci_Type_illustrations_taxonomical_notes_and_key_to_the_species

(1) Plants are small and densely tufted, (2) branches are ca. 3-5 mm long, ca. 1 mm wide, and often attenuate at tips; (3) stem leaves are erect-spreading, with slightly auriculate bases and long-acuminate apices; (4) branch leaves erect-patent, much smaller than stem leaves, ca. 0.5 mm long, concave, plicate, and apices are acute to acuminate; (5) leaf margins entire or bluntly denticulate with simple teeth; (6) lamina cells are rather thick-walled, smooth but sparsely prorate to spiculose-prorate above; (7) setae are 11 mm long, and distantly pustulose or papillose above but smooth below; (8) calyptrae are cucullate and hispid, with a few scattered long and erect hairs appressed to the surface.