Status: Native
Synonyms:
Didymodon vaginata Hook.
Symblepharis helicophylla Mont.
Symblepharis chrismari C. Muell.
Symblepharis oerstediana C. Muell.
Symblepharis vaginata is an interesting moss with up to four seta per perichaetium. Symblepharis vaginata has strongly crisped dry leaves that unfold when wet. The leaves are toothed at the apex and abruptely narrowed from an ovate, sheathing base. The cells are rectangular to nearly linear at the base and isodiametric above the base. Symblepharis vaginata is found in upper elevation forest.
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Symblepharis vaginata (1x macro dry), photo Russ Kleinman, Kelly Allred & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Signal Peak, April 2, 2011
Symblepharis vaginata, 4x macro dry, photo Russ Kleinman, Kelly Allred & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Signal Peak, April 2, 2011
Symblepharis vaginata, macro of growth habit, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Mtns, Redstone Trailhead, June 10, 2010
Symblepharis vaginata, 3x macro of dry appearance, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Mtns, Redstone Trailhead, June 10, 2010
Symblepharis vaginata, 3x macro of dry capsules, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Mtns, Redstone Trailhead, June 10, 2010
Symblepharis vaginata, 40x photomicrograph of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman, Kelly Allred & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Signal Peak, April 2, 2011
Symblepharis vaginata, 40x photomicrograph of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman, Kelly Allred & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Signal Peak, April 2, 2011
Symblepharis vaginata, 40x photomicrograph of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Mtns, Redstone Trailhead, June 10, 2010
Symblepharis vaginata, 100x photomicrograph of leaf base, photo Russ Kleinman, Kelly Allred & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Signal Peak, April 2, 2011
Symblepharis vaginata, 400x photomicrograph of mid leaf, photo Russ Kleinman, Kelly Allred & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Signal Peak, April 2, 2011
Symblepharis vaginata, 200x photomicrograph of leaf apex, photo Russ Kleinman, Kelly Allred & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Signal Peak, April 2, 2011
Symblepharis vaginata, 40x photomicrograph of leaf apex, photo Russ Kleinman, Kelly Allred & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Mtns, Redstone Trailhead, June 10, 2010
Symblepharis vaginata, 400x photomicrograph of cross section of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman, Kelly Allred & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Mtns, Redstone Trailhead, June 10, 2010
Symblepharis vaginata, 200x photomicrograph of cross section of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman, Kelly Allred & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Mtns, Redstone Trailhead, June 10, 2010
Symblepharis vaginata, 400x photomicrograph of cross section of stem, photo Russ Kleinman, Kelly Allred & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Mtns, Redstone Trailhead, June 10, 2010
