Status: Native
Synonyms:
Grimmia anodon Bruch & Schimper var. anomola Bartram
Grimmia subanodon Ochyra
Schistidium obtusifolium Ireland & H.A. Crum
Grimmia anodon is a greenish black moss with the costa excurrent as a hyaline hairpoint. The margin of the leaf is plane. The lamina is one stratose except for the margins where it is two-stratose, and occasional patches elsewhere in the leaf where it can also be two-stratose. The short capsules are immersed and have no peristome. The seta is off-centered where it inserts onto the base of the capsule. Many thanks to Kelly Allred and to Henk Greven for confirming the ID of this moss.
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Grimmia anodon (4x macro dry), photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Bear Mountain Road, April 28, 2011
Grimmia anodon, 4x macro wet, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Bear Mountain Road, April 28, 2011
Grimmia anodon, 40x photomicrograph of lateral view of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Bear Mountain Road, April 28, 2011
Grimmia anodon, 100x photomicrograph of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Bear Mountain Road, April 28, 2011
Grimmia anodon, 100x photomicrograph of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Bear Mountain Road, April 28, 2011
Grimmia anodon, 100x photomicrograph of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Bear Mountain Road, April 28, 2011
Grimmia anodon, 100x photomicrograph of capsule, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Bear Mountain Road, April 28, 2011
Grimmia anodon, 400x photomicrograph of leaf cross section, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Bear Mountain Road, April 28, 2011
Grimmia anodon, 400x photomicrograph of leaf cross section, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Bear Mountain Road, April 28, 2011
Grimmia anodon, 100x photomicrograph of stubby capsule without peristome and with sigmoid eccentric seta (perichaetial leaves removed), photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Brock Ridge, Knight Mtn., September 1, 2012
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