Octoblepharum albidum

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Calymperaceae

Plants small to medium-sized, mostly erect [prostrate and with ascending branches], in tufts, cushions , or gregarious , rarely single or in tufts of a few; dark green to yellowish brown stems. Stems simple or forked ; central strand absent; rhizoids brown to red or dark purple, scanty to numerous , sometimes abundant and conspicuous ; axillary hairs 2 to many per axil, proximal cells short and colored , or undifferentiated. Leaves often slightly to strongly dimorphic , mostly variously contorted when dry, straight and erect-ascending when moist, teniolae (intramarginal files of differentiated cells) present (in some Calymperes) or absent; proximal portion of leaves commonly sheathing , including usually conspicuous areas of smooth , enlarged, hyaline , internally and externally porose cells (cancellinae) ; distal portion of leaves oblong to ligulate , lanceolate, acuminate, or narrowly long-linear; margins of distal lamina mostly thickened and toothed , sometimes bordered entirely or in part with elongate hyaline cells; costa single, strong , percurrent to excurrent, in cross section showing a median row of guide cells with abaxial and adaxial bands of stereid cells (the ad- and abaxial bands of cells rarely thin-walled and parenchyma-like) ; medial cells of distal lamina mostly isodiametric, rarely transversely elongate, mostly variously papillose . Specialized asexual reproduction common by seriate-multicellular, fusiform-clavate to filiform gemmae, borne mostly adaxially on apices of often highly modified leaves. Sexual condition mostly dioicous, rarely monoicous; perigonia axillary , gemmiform , with highly reduced leaves; perichaetia terminal but quickly overtopped by innovations and then appearing lateral , leaves few, scarcely different from cauline leaves. Seta single, yellow to red, mostly elongate, smooth, erect. Capsule erect, mostly exserted, rarely immersed , yellowish to brown, mostly cylindric , smooth; stomata scanty, on neck, phaneropore ; annulus differentiated in several rows of cells; operculum rostrate ; peristome single, often vestigial or absent, teeth 16, variously papillose on external surface, mostly smooth on internal surface, with weak transverse bars . Calyptra cucullate and deciduous or rarely conic-mitrate, sometimes clasping the seta below the capsule and persistent and the spores then escaping through vertical fissures in the calyptra, naked, smooth or papillose, sometimes plicate . Spores spherical , mostly granular-papillose.

Genera 3, species ca. 150 (2 genera, 11 species in the flora ) : worldwide, mostly tropical and subtropical regions.

The Calymperaceae are defined by clasping leaf bases with cancellinae, absence of stem central strand , usually thickened and toothed leaf margins, mainly tropical-subtropical range , corticolous habitat , and common production of uniseriate leaf-tip gemmae. Plants of the family are specialized for water capture and retention by their sheathing leaf bases, and the large, empty, porose cells of their cancellinae. The habitat is typically on bark but many taxa occur primarily on decaying wood , rock, and soil. Our taxa occur almost exclusively in the southeastern United States.[1]

Genus Octoblepharum

Plants small, densely to loosely cespitose. Stems erect . Leaves crowded, erect to spreading-recurved, weakly bordered with elongate hyaline cells ; chlorophyllose cells in a single layer; costa absent. Peristome with prostome present.

Species ca. 15: worldwide in tropical and subtropical regions.[2]

Physical Description

Habitat

Hammocks and open forests , primarily on stems and bases of Quercus virginiana and Sabal palmetto, and rotted logs , occasionally terrestrial on soil and humus ; low elevations (0-30 m )[3].

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,936 meters (0 to 16,194 feet).[4]

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Octoblepharum cuspidatum C. M�ller • Octoblepharum ekmanii Th�riot • Octoblepharum longifolium Lindberg • Octoblepharum minus Hampe

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 19-Jul-2004

Similar Species

Members of the genus Octoblepharum

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

O. albidum (Octoblepharum Moss)

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Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:

• Australian Antarctic Data Centre: Australian Antarctic Division Herbarium
• Australian National Herbarium (CANB)
• Botanical Research Institute of Texas: Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Herbarium
• GBIF-Spain: Real Jardin Botanico, Madrid: MA-Musci
• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus: The AAU Herbarium Database
• Herbier de la Guyane
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (Costa Rica): Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• National Herbarium of New South Wales: Plants of Papua New Guinea
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: MEXU/Colección de Briofitas

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3872847
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: MOS-35172326
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 16849
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: OCAL2
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 51412

Footnotes

1. William D. Reese "Calymperaceae". in Flora of North America Vol. 27 Page 654, 663. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. "Octoblepharum". in Flora of North America Vol. 27 Page 440, 663, 664. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
3. "Octoblepharum albidum". in Flora of North America Vol. 27 Page 21, 661, 664. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
4. Mean = 328.160 meters (1,076.640 feet), Standard Deviation = 933.630 based on 550 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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