Status: Native
Synonyms:
None
Encalypta procera is a rather large moss for this genus. When it is found in the sterile condition, it has no hair points and looks like
a Syntrichia. However, E. procera has abundant branching, rhizoid-like gemmae along the stem in the leaf axils. These gemmae have elongate
brownish cells proximally and more quadrate, greenish roughened cells distally. The leaf has distal cells that are chlorophyllose
and have large complex papillae, and smooth proximal cells that are rectangular and thick-walled medially and elongate and thin-walled marginally. The transition
from the sheathing, smooth basal portion of the leaf to the spreading papillose distal leaf is quite abrupt.
The costa has no papillae distally on its abaxial surface, but does have a few coarse teeth. The adaxial half the cross section of the costa is
occupied by large clear cells and the abaxial half is taken up by stereids.
Like other species of Encalypta, the calyptra encloses the entire capsule. However, the lower margin of the calyptra of E. procera is ragged (laciniate)
and the surface of the calyptra is papillose.
We found Encalypta procera on soil in the Santa Fe National Forest,
near Terrero, along Holy Ghost Creek.
Please click on an image for a larger file.
Encalypta procera, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Kirsten Romig, Ron Wittman & Kelly Allred, San Miguel Cty., Santa Fe National Forest, near Terrero, along Holy Ghost Creek, August 4, 2015
Encalypta procera, photomicrograph of dry stems, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Kirsten Romig, Ron Wittman & Kelly Allred, San Miguel Cty., Santa Fe National Forest, near Terrero, along Holy Ghost Creek, August 4, 2015
Encalypta procera, photomicrograph of wetted stems, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Kirsten Romig, Ron Wittman & Kelly Allred, San Miguel Cty., Santa Fe National Forest, near Terrero, along Holy Ghost Creek, August 4, 2015
Encalypta procera, 40x photomicrograph of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Kirsten Romig, Ron Wittman & Kelly Allred, San Miguel Cty., Santa Fe National Forest, near Terrero, along Holy Ghost Creek, August 4, 2015
Encalypta procera, 40x photomicrograph of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Kirsten Romig, Ron Wittman & Kelly Allred, San Miguel Cty., Santa Fe National Forest, near Terrero, along Holy Ghost Creek, August 4, 2015
Encalypta procera, photomicrograph of leaf with axillary rhizoid-like gemmae, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Kirsten Romig, Ron Wittman & Kelly Allred, San Miguel Cty., Santa Fe National Forest, near Terrero, along Holy Ghost Creek, August 4, 2015
Encalypta procera, 40x photomicrograph of axillary rhizoid-like gemmae, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Kirsten Romig, Ron Wittman & Kelly Allred, San Miguel Cty., Santa Fe National Forest, near Terrero, along Holy Ghost Creek, August 4, 2015
Encalypta procera, 200x photomicrograph of leaf apex with abaxial costal teeth, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Kirsten Romig, Ron Wittman & Kelly Allred, San Miguel Cty., Santa Fe National Forest, near Terrero, along Holy Ghost Creek, August 4, 2015
Encalypta procera, 600x photomicrograph of margin at leaf base, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Kirsten Romig, Ron Wittman & Kelly Allred, San Miguel Cty., Santa Fe National Forest, near Terrero, along Holy Ghost Creek, August 4, 2015
Encalypta procera, 600x photomicrograph of margin at midleaf, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Kirsten Romig, Ron Wittman & Kelly Allred, San Miguel Cty., Santa Fe National Forest, near Terrero, along Holy Ghost Creek, August 4, 2015
Encalypta procera, 600x photomicrograph of junction of proximal and distal leaf, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Kirsten Romig, Ron Wittman & Kelly Allred, San Miguel Cty., Santa Fe National Forest, near Terrero, along Holy Ghost Creek, August 4, 2015
Encalypta procera, 100x photomicrograph of distal leaf cross section, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Kirsten Romig, Ron Wittman & Kelly Allred, San Miguel Cty., Santa Fe National Forest, near Terrero, along Holy Ghost Creek, August 4, 2015
Encalypta procera, 600x photomicrograph of cross section of costa, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Kirsten Romig, Ron Wittman & Kelly Allred, San Miguel Cty., Santa Fe National Forest, near Terrero, along Holy Ghost Creek, August 4, 2015
Encalypta procera, 3x macro of calyptra (few stems of Encalypta, but most of background is Schistidium), photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Kirsten Romig, Ron Wittman & Kelly Allred, San Miguel Cty., Santa Fe National Forest, top of Elk Mtn., August 4, 2015
Encalypta procera, stereomicrograph of fertile stem, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Kirsten Romig, Ron Wittman & Kelly Allred, San Miguel Cty., Santa Fe National Forest, top of Elk Mtn., August 4, 2015
Encalypta procera, 40x dark field photomicrograph of calyptra, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Kirsten Romig, Ron Wittman & Kelly Allred, San Miguel Cty., Santa Fe National Forest, top of Elk Mtn., August 4, 2015
Encalypta procera, 600x photomicrograph of papillae on calyptra, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Kirsten Romig, Ron Wittman & Kelly Allred, San Miguel Cty., Santa Fe National Forest, top of Elk Mtn., August 4, 2015
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