Status: Native
Synonyms:
Didymodon vinealis(Bridel) R.H. Zander
Barbula vinealis Bridel
Vinealobryum vineale is an acrocarpous moss with triangular leaves that are acute at the apex. The plants are usually green with a reddish cast. The margins can be recurved to above midleaf. The apex commonly ends in a conical cell. The laminal cells can be smooth or strongly papillose. When present, the papillae are commonly bifid (divided into two parts). Distally, the costa is frequently sunken into a channel the width of the costa. The adaxial surface of the costa is covered with quadrate cells at mid leaf, unlike the costa of G. tophacea which is covered by elongate cells at mid leaf. Vinealobryum vineale is found in cracks in rocks in the splash zone of creeks at middle elevation.
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Vinealobryum vineale (3x macro dry), photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Mtns., Little Dry Creek Trail 180, January 30, 2011
Vinealobryum vineale, 3x macro dry, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Mtns., Little Dry Creek Trail 180, January 30, 2011
Vinealobryum vineale, 3x macro wet, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Mtns., Little Dry Creek Trail 180, January 30, 2011
Vinealobryum vineale, 3x macro wet, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Mtns., Little Dry Creek Trail 180, January 30, 2011
Vinealobryum vineale, 100x photomicrograph of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Mtns., Little Dry Creek Trail 180, January 30, 2011
Vinealobryum vineale, 100x photomicrograph of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Mtns., Little Dry Creek Trail 180, January 30, 2011
Vinealobryum vineale, 100x photomicrograph of lateral aspect of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Mtns., Little Dry Creek Trail 180, January 30, 2011
Vinealobryum vineale, 400x photomicrograph of leaf tip, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Mtns., Little Dry Creek Trail 180, January 30, 2011
Vinealobryum vineale, 400x photomicrograph of stem cross section, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Mtns., Little Dry Creek Trail 180, January 30, 2011
Vinealobryum vineale, 400x photomicrograph of cross section of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Mtns., Little Dry Creek Trail 180, January 30, 2011
Vinealobryum vineale, 400x photomicrograph of cross section of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Mtns., Little Dry Creek Trail 180, January 30, 2011
Vinealobryum vineale, 400x photomicrograph of brown basal axillary hair cell of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Mtns., Little Dry Creek Trail 180, January 30, 2011
Vinealobryum vineale, 400x photomicrograph of distal leaf thick cross section with deep channel for costa (at top) and bifid papillae, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, October 18, 2011
Vinealobryum vineale, 400x photomicrograph of quadrate adaxial cells of costa at mid leaf, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, October 18, 2011
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