Plants of the Gila Wilderness

Presented in Association with the
Western New Mexico University Department of Natural Sciences

Brachythecium oedipodium (Mitten) Jaeger

Family: Brachytheciaceae

Status: Native

Synonyms:
Sciuro-hypnum oedipodium (Mitten) Ignatov & Huttunen

Brachythecium oedipodium is a light green, mid-sized pleurocarpous moss. It has a strongly serrate leaf margin almost all the way to the base. The acuminate tip is frequently twisted. The mid-laminal cells are linear. We found this moss growing on soil at the cave entrance.
Please click on an image for a larger file.



Brachythecium oedipodium, photo Russ Kleinman, Kelly Allred, Kirsten Romig, John Brinda & Karen Blisard, El Malpais National Monument, AJ's Turnaround, July 21, 2016



Brachythecium oedipodium, photomicrograph of leaf photo Russ Kleinman, Kelly Allred, Kirsten Romig, John Brinda & Karen Blisard, El Malpais National Monument, AJ's Turnaround, July 21, 2016



Brachythecium oedipodium, photomicrograph of leaf photo Russ Kleinman, Kelly Allred, Kirsten Romig, John Brinda & Karen Blisard, El Malpais National Monument, AJ's Turnaround, July 21, 2016



Brachythecium oedipodium, dark field photomicrograph of leaf photo Russ Kleinman, Kelly Allred, Kirsten Romig, John Brinda & Karen Blisard, El Malpais National Monument, AJ's Turnaround, July 21, 2016


Back to the Index