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Ear-leaf Boat Moss - Hygrohypnum cochlearifolium
Other Names:
Ear-leaf Hygrohypnum Moss
General Description
Plant: Soft mats, yellow to yellow-green. Stems usually less than 5 cm, usually unbranched or seldom irregularly branched. Costa often forked near base.
Leaf: Spoon-shaped (cochleariform), ovate, broadly ovate to almost orbicular. (0.5-)0.8-1.2(-1.5) x (0.3-)0.6-l(1.3) mm. Loosely imbricate to erect-spreading. Small leaves recurved, larger leaves usually planed; entire. Apex rounded or obtuse, seldom acute (FNA 2014).
Leaf Cells: Alar region not clearly defined with cells few, quadrate or nearly so or irregular. Basal laminal cells short fusiform, linear flexuose, or rhombic, length variable, 26-48(-55) x (4-)5-6(-8) µm. Apical cells shorter to more rhombic.
Diagnostic Characteristics
This species has the deepest leaf concavity in the genus.
Range Comments
A montane-widespread disjunct (Belland 1998). Canada: NU, YT; USA: AK, CO, MT; Europe (FNA 2014). In Montana: Flathead, Lincoln, and Park Counties (Elliott 2016).
Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 2
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Recency
(Observations spanning multiple months or years are excluded from time charts)
Habitat
Acidic rock in mountain streams (Elliott 2016) and wet places in the mountains that are influenced by a Pacific maritime climate.
Reproductive Characteristics
Seta/Capsule: Seta yellowish to reddish. Capsule with 2-3 endostome cilia.
Stewardship Responsibility
References
- Literature Cited AboveLegend:
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Belland, R. J. 1998. The Rare Mosses of Canada - A Review and First Listing. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. 91 pp.- Elliott, J.C. and A.K. Pipp. 2018. A Checklist of Montana Mosses (1880-2018). Updated 3 January, 2020. Montana Natural Heritage Program, Helena, Montana. 73 pp.
- Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 2014. Flora of North America North of Mexico. Volume 28. Bryophytes: Mosses, Part 2. Oxford University Press, Inc., NY. xxi + 702 pp.
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Do you know of a citation we're missing?- Elliot, J. C. 1993. Second checklist of Montana mosses. Unpublished report. U.S. Forest Service, Region 1. Missoula, MT. 45 pp.
- Lawton, E. 1971. Keys for the Identification of the Mosses on the Pacific Northwest. Reprinted from 'Moss Flora of the Pacific Northwest'. Published as Supplement No. 2 of the Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory. Nichinan, Miyazaki, Japan. 66 pp.
- Lawton, E. 1971. Moss Flora of the Pacific Northwest. Hattori Botanical Laboratory. Japan: Yamabuki-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo. 362 pages plus appendices.
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