Status: Native
Synonyms:
Bryum capillare Hedwig
Rosulabryum capillare is a rosulate acrocarpous moss that lacks axillary filiform gemmae. The leaves are spirally wrapped around the stem. The leaves are obovate with a weak limbidium of 1 or 2 cells and usually a strongly serrulate distal margin (weak in our specimen). There are rhizoidal tubers that are the same color as the rhizoids, 200-300 microns in diameter, and not bright crimson as they are in R. torquescens. We found R. capillare at the entrance to a cave on a boulder.
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Rosulabryum capillare, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Cibola County, El Malpais National Monument, Piggly Wiggly Cave, May 23, 2019
Rosulabryum capillare, moistened stem, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Cibola County, El Malpais National Monument, Piggly Wiggly Cave, May 23, 2019
Rosulabryum capillare, photomicrograph of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Cibola County, El Malpais National Monument, Piggly Wiggly Cave, May 23, 2019
Rosulabryum capillare, photomicrograph of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Cibola County, El Malpais National Monument, Piggly Wiggly Cave, May 23, 2019
Rosulabryum capillare, photomicrograph of rhizoidal tuber, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Cibola County, El Malpais National Monument, Piggly Wiggly Cave, May 23, 2019
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