Status: Native
Synonyms:
Jungermannia hyalina Lyell
Plectocolea hyalina (Lyell) Mitten
Solenostoma hyalina has entire leaf margins and semicircular leaves that are decurrent on the stem. The rhizoids are red. The widest part of the leaf is at the base. There are a few large, granular oil bodies in fresh specimens, but they degrade in herbarium specimens and are not well seen.
Many thanks to the Duke Herbarium and Blanka Aguero for loaning us this specimen for photography.
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Solenostoma hyalinum, collection and ID by R.M. Schuster, Michigan, Alger County, just E of Miners Castle, Pictured Rocks, on damp sandstone bluff, June 22, 1957; photos by Russ Kleinman and Karen Blisard, August 20, 2023
Solenostoma hyalinum, photomicrograph of stem showing decurrent leaf bases, collection and ID by R.M. Schuster, Michigan, Alger County, just E of Miners Castle, Pictured Rocks, on damp sandstone bluff, June 22, 1957; photos by Russ Kleinman and Karen Blisard, August 20, 2023
Solenostoma hyalinum, photomicrograph of stem showing red rhizoids, collection and ID by R.M. Schuster, Michigan, Alger County, just E of Miners Castle, Pictured Rocks, on damp sandstone bluff, June 22, 1957; photos by Russ Kleinman and Karen Blisard, August 20, 2023
Solenostoma hyalinum, photomicrograph of leaf, collection and ID by R.M. Schuster, Michigan, Alger County, just E of Miners Castle, Pictured Rocks, on damp sandstone bluff, June 22, 1957; photos by Russ Kleinman and Karen Blisard, August 20, 2023
Solenostoma hyalinum, photomicrograph leaf cells (most oil bodies no longer recognizable), collection and ID by R.M. Schuster, Michigan, Alger County, just E of Miners Castle, Pictured Rocks, on damp sandstone bluff, June 22, 1957; photos by Russ Kleinman and Karen Blisard, August 20, 2023
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