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Seligeria cardotti

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Species of moss

Seligeria cardotii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Subclass: Dicranidae
Order: Grimmiales
Family: Seligeriaceae
Genus: Seligeria
Species: S. cardotti
Binomial name
Seligeria cardotti
R. Br. bis

Seligeria cardotii is one of the two species in genus Seligeria, bryophytes of the Seligeriaceae family, in the Southern Hemisphere; an additional 19 species have been described in the Northern Hemisphere.

Appearance

S. cardotii is an erect, light green to blue-green moss. It typically does not grow longer than 3 mm. Its leaves are linear with a narrow midrib between 2–3 rows of translucent cells on either side. The leaves do not sheath at the stem and have an entire to slightly crenellate sobarnis margin. Capsules are 0.4–0.5–mm long and obovate-hemispheric when moist, becoming obconic when dry. The peristome contains 16 moderately short, reddish, lanceolate teeth approximately 40–μm. Spores are 10–14–μm in diameter and green.

Geographical distribution and habitat

The type specimen of S. cardotii was described in the nineteenth century from a collection from New Zealand's South Island, where it is widespread on moist calcareous soils. It has also been recorded in Australia from a single population in Tasmania.

References

  1. ^ Dalton, P (1998). "Seligeria cardati R.Br., a new moss record for Tasmania". New Zealand Journal of Botany. 132: 41–45. doi:10.1080/0028825X.1995.10412952.
  2. ^ Vitt, D.H. and Bartlett, J.K., 1983. The genus Seligeria in New Zealand. Bryologist, pp.106-113.
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