Status: Native
Synonyms:
Hypnum lindbergii Mitten
Calliergonella lindbergii is interesting as New Mexico mosses go-- it is a dweller of swampy places. There aren't too many swampy spots in southwestern New Mexico! The specimen pictured here was found on the surface of 8 inch deep, blackish, swampy muck and was growing among sedges in a low area at the outflow of a slowly running spring that empties eventually into Willow Creek. This is a pleurocarpous moss. The leaves are falcate secund (strongly curved to one side). The costa is absent or faintly double, the margin is entire. The cells of the lamina are smooth and linear as in most of the Hypnaceae. The most defining character is the presence of abruptly demarcated and differentiated basal cells that are continuous with portions of the stem that tear off with the leaves (the stem hyalodermis).
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Calliergonella lindbergii, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Willow Creek, Ben Lilly Campground, in a swampy area with sedges and deep black muck, June 24, 2013
Calliergonella lindbergii, portion of stem with falcate secund leaves, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Willow Creek, Ben Lilly Campground, in a swampy area with sedges and deep black muck, June 24, 2013
Calliergonella lindbergii, 400x photomicrograph of leaf base with abruptly inflated basal cells and attached stem hyalodermis, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Willow Creek, Ben Lilly Campground, in a swampy area with sedges and deep black muck, June 24, 2013
Calliergonella lindbergii, 40x photomicrograph of leaves, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Willow Creek, Ben Lilly Campground, in a swampy area with sedges and deep black muck, June 24, 2013
Calliergonella lindbergii, 40x photomicrograph of leaf showing abruptly inflated basal cells, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Willow Creek, Ben Lilly Campground, in a swampy area with sedges and deep black muck, June 24, 2013
Calliergonella lindbergii, 400x photomicrograph of cells at leaf apex, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Willow Creek, Ben Lilly Campground, in a swampy area with sedges and deep black muck, June 24, 2013
Calliergonella lindbergii, 400x photomicrograph of cells at mid leaf, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Willow Creek, Ben Lilly Campground, in a swampy area with sedges and deep black muck, June 24, 2013
Calliergonella lindbergii, 100x photomicrograph of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Willow Creek, Ben Lilly Campground, in a swampy area with sedges and deep black muck, June 24, 2013
Calliergonella lindbergii, 200x photomicrograph of nearly absent/short double costa at leaf base, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Willow Creek, Ben Lilly Campground, in a swampy area with sedges and deep black muck, June 24, 2013
Calliergonella lindbergii, photomicrograph of stem cross section showing hyalodermis, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Taos County, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Carson National Forest, Williams Lake, August 7, 2015
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