Status: Native
Synonyms:
Fabronia wrightii Sullivant
Fabronia ciliaris is a very small pleurocarpous moss with leaves less than 0.5mm long. The leaf edges are usually coarsely toothed but some leaves may be almost entire.
The cells are usually hexagonal at midleaf, though they are nearly isodiametric at the base and along the margins. There is a stem central strand present. The capsules are short and goblet shaped when mature and dry. The cells of the mature capsule look like jigsaw puzzle pieces with very curving edges.
Fabronia ciliaris is found mixed with other mosses and liverworts hiding in shady moist areas or in crevices in rock faces as well as sometimes on trees.
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Fabronia ciliaris, macro of habit on base of trunk on Cercocarpus breviflorus, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Pinos Altos, October 23, 2022
Fabronia ciliaris, photo Russ Kleinman, Kelly Allred & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Little Cherry Creek Ranch Road, August 19, 2010
Fabronia ciliaris, photomicrograph of stem, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Pinos Altos, December 25, 2015
Fabronia ciliaris, 100x photomicrograph of stem, photo Russ Kleinman, Kelly Allred & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Little Cherry Creek Ranch Road, August 19, 2010
Fabronia ciliaris, 200x photomicrograph of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman, Kelly Allred & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Little Cherry Creek Ranch Road, August 19, 2010
Fabronia ciliaris, 400x photomicrograph of leaf with more subtle teeth, photo Russ Kleinman, Kelly Allred & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Little Cherry Creek Ranch Road, August 19, 2010
Fabronia ciliaris, 5x macro of sporophytes, photo Russ Kleinman, Burro Mtns., Gold Gulch Spring in a hollow in a cliff wall, October 17, 2010
Fabronia ciliaris, 5x macro of sporophytes, photo Russ Kleinman, Burro Mtns., Gold Gulch Spring in a hollow in a cliff wall, October 17, 2010
Fabronia ciliaris, 3x macro of sporophytes, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, on rock on Signal Peak, December 25, 2014
Fabronia ciliaris, 40x dark field photomicrograph of sporophyte with calyptra, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, on rock on Signal Peak, December 25, 2014
Fabronia ciliaris, photomicrograph of stem central strand, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Pinos Altos, November 12, 2018
Fabronia ciliaris,photomicrograph of stem cross section, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Pinos Altos, October 23, 2022
Fabronia ciliaris, photomicrograph of cells at mid lamina, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Pinos Altos, November 12, 2018
Fabronia ciliaris, macro of sporophytes, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Pinos Altos, October 23, 2022
Fabronia ciliaris, macro of sporophytes, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Pinos Altos, October 23, 2022
Fabronia ciliaris, macro of sporophytes, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Pinos Altos, October 23, 2022
Fabronia ciliaris, macro of curvy, jigsaw puzzle piece-like exothecial cells of capsule, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Pinos Altos, October 23, 2022
Fabronia ciliaris, photomicrograph of leaf cross section, photo Russ Kleinman, Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Pinos Altos, October 23, 2022
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