Status: Native
Synonyms:
Hookeria radiculosa Hooker
Hypnum wrightii (Sullivant) Sullivant
Omalia wrightii (Sullivant
Pterygophyllum indicum Bélanger
Stereophyllum indicum (Bélanger) Mitten
Stereophyllum radiculosulum (Müller Hal.) A. Jaeger
Stereophyllum wrightii (Sullivant) Renauld & Cardot
Stereophyllum radiculosum is a pleurocarp that grows on tree bark in tropical
lowlands, so it is not something one would expect to find in many places in New Mexico!
This moss is somewhat complanate. The laminal cells are described (FNA) as usually having
a "single papilla over the lumina on both surfaces of the leaves". On our specimens,
the papillae are low, indistinct, and not present on many of the cells. The papillae
are inconspicuous in both the usual microscopic (en face) view, as well as in cross sections
of the leaf. The two New Mexico collections of Stereophyllum radiculosum searchable on
CNABH are both over 150 years old, likely from the Santa Fe area. Our photos are of a
specimen from Florida.
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Stereophyllum radiculosum, collection by Karen Blisard (ID by Russ Kleinman, 2015), Florida, Monroe County, Pennekamp State Park, Mangrove forest, on live tree bark, March 10, 2015; photos by Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, January 28, 2023
Stereophyllum radiculosum, photomicrograph of habit, collection by Karen Blisard (ID by Russ Kleinman, 2015), Florida, Monroe County, Pennekamp State Park, Mangrove forest, on live tree bark, March 10, 2015; photos by Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, January 28, 2023
Stereophyllum radiculosum, photomicrograph of leaf, collection by Karen Blisard (ID by Russ Kleinman, 2015), Florida, Monroe County, Pennekamp State Park, Mangrove forest, on live tree bark, March 10, 2015; photos by Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, January 28, 2023
Stereophyllum radiculosum, photomicrograph of leaf apex, collection by Karen Blisard (ID by Russ Kleinman, 2015), Florida, Monroe County, Pennekamp State Park, Mangrove forest, on live tree bark, March 10, 2015; photos by Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, January 28, 2023
Stereophyllum radiculosum, photomicrograph of leaf base, collection by Karen Blisard (ID by Russ Kleinman, 2015), Florida, Monroe County, Pennekamp State Park, Mangrove forest, on live tree bark, March 10, 2015; photos by Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, January 28, 2023
Stereophyllum radiculosum, photomicrograph of leaf laminal cells, collection by Karen Blisard (ID by Russ Kleinman, 2015), Florida, Monroe County, Pennekamp State Park, Mangrove forest, on live tree bark, March 10, 2015; photos by Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, January 28, 2023
Stereophyllum radiculosum, photomicrograph of leaf cross section, collection by Karen Blisard (ID by Russ Kleinman, 2015), Florida, Monroe County, Pennekamp State Park, Mangrove forest, on live tree bark, March 10, 2015; photos by Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, January 28, 2023
Stereophyllum radiculosum, photomicrograph of margin of a leaf cross section that best showed papillae, collection by Karen Blisard (ID by Russ Kleinman, 2015), Florida, Monroe County, Pennekamp State Park, Mangrove forest, on live tree bark, March 10, 2015; photos by Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, January 28, 2023
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