Chaetomitrium Vrieseanum

• Main Authors: Monica Suleiman, Hiroyuki Akiyama
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: QK1-989 Botany; SH388.7-391.5 Algae culture
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/32347/2/Plate%2043%20%28SPECIMEN%29.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/32347/3/Plate%2044%20%28SPECIMEN%29.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/32347/4/Plate%2045%20%28SPECIMEN%29.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/32347/; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272747174_Malesian_Chaetomitrium_Symphyodontaceae_Musci_Type_illustrations_taxonomical_notes_and_key_to_the_species

(1) Plants are small, densely branched, regularly and pinnately branched; (2) branches are short, only 4-6 mm long; (3) stem leaves are crowded, squarrose, orbicular, obtuse with sharp apiculus; (4) leaf margins are strongly undulate, closely denticulate to the base with geminate teeth; (4) lamina cells are thick-walled, prorate to spiculose-prorate above, distantly prorate below, becoming much shorter towards the apex, irregularly rhomboidal, strongly incrassate; (5) setae are 6 mm long and setulose to the base; (6) calyptrae (immature) are hispid all over the surface with long cilia below.