Chaetomitrium Leptopoma

• Main Authors: Monica Suleiman, Hiroyuki Akiyama
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: QK1-989 Botany; SH388.7-391.5 Algae culture
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/32321/2/Plate%2018%20%28SPECIMEN%29.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/32321/5/Plate%2019%20%28SPECIMEN%29.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/32321/; 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 pinnately to bipinnately branched; (2) stem leaves are slightly flattened, sharply acute, and plane or slightly constricted below apices; (3) leaf margins are serrate to spinose-serrate with simple teeth; (4) lamina cells are spinose-prorate abaxially in upper half; (5) branch leaves are rigid, widely spreading to slightly recurved-spreading, tumid, much smaller than stem leaves, ca. 0.4 mm long, erect or recurved at apices and shortly apiculate; (6) setae are 7 mm long, densely papillose to the base except the extreme bases. (7) capsules are inclined and rough; (9) calyptrae are cucullate, densely hispid but naked at the base or with a few short hairs.