Chaetomitrium Robbinsii

• 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/32335/2/Plate%2035%20%28SPECIMEN%29.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/32335/; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272747174_Malesian_Chaetomitrium_Symphyodontaceae_Musci_Type_illustrations_taxonomical_notes_and_key_to_the_species

(1) Plants are small, sub-pendant, wiry, rigid, laxly branched; branches are tumid; (2) stem leaves are sub-quadrate, squarrose-recurved, wavy, widest at shoulder, and apices are widely obtuse to truncate apices and not apiculate; (3) leaf margins are plane, denticulate nearly to the base, with often minutely geminate teeth; (4) lamina cells are thick-walled, minutely prorulate to the base with sparsely blunt prorulae above, becoming much shorter at apical angles; (5) setae are short, ca. 1.5 mm long, sparsely papillose, smooth below; (6) capsules are sub-erect and slightly rough; (7) calyptrae are mitriform, with long cilia at the base, and spinose-hispid above.