Status: Native
Synonyms:
Hymenostomum ligulifolium Bartram
Weissia andersoniana R.H. Zander
Weissia ligulifolia is relatively common as small bright green clumps along rocks in the lower to middle elevations of the Gila. The ligulate leaves have a weak mucro of just one or a few cells, and the margins of the leaves are involulate distally (a feature lost as the leaves are mounted on slides.) The leaves are papillose distally.
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Weissia ligulifolia, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Florida Mtns., Spring Canyon, February 26, 2021
Weissia ligulifolia, with small amount of Bryum lanatum (white), photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Pinos Altos Range, Little Cherry Creek Ranch Road, October 18, 2018
Weissia ligulifolia (1x macro, dry), photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Scott Zager, Patty Vanderwaal & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Catwalk, December 19, 2010
Weissia ligulifolia (3x macro, wet), photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Scott Zager, Patty Vanderwaal & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Catwalk, December 19, 2010
Weissia ligulifolia, 100x photomicrograph of stem apex with leaves visibly involute, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Scott Zager, Patty Vanderwaal & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Catwalk, December 19, 2010
Weissia ligulifolia, 100x photomicrograph of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Scott Zager, Patty Vanderwaal & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Catwalk, December 19, 2010
Weissia ligulifolia, 100x photomicrograph of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Scott Zager, Patty Vanderwaal & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Catwalk, December 19, 2010
Weissia ligulifolia, 100x photomicrograph of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Scott Zager, Patty Vanderwaal & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Catwalk, December 19, 2010
Weissia ligulifolia, 100x photomicrograph of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Scott Zager, Patty Vanderwaal & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Catwalk, December 19, 2010
Weissia ligulifolia, 200x photomicrograph of leaf apex, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Scott Zager, Patty Vanderwaal & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Catwalk, December 19, 2010
Weissia ligulifolia, 400x photomicrograph of leaf apex, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Scott Zager, Patty Vanderwaal & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Catwalk, December 19, 2010
Weissia ligulifolia, 200x photomicrograph of leaf base, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Scott Zager, Patty Vanderwaal & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Catwalk, December 19, 2010
Weissia ligulifolia, 400x photomicrograph of cross section of leaf near base, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Scott Zager, Patty Vanderwaal & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Catwalk, December 19, 2010
Weissia ligulifolia, 400x photomicrograph of cross section of leaf near mid leaf, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Scott Zager, Patty Vanderwaal & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Catwalk, December 19, 2010
Weissia ligulifolia, 400x photomicrograph of cross section of leaf near leaf tip, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Scott Zager, Patty Vanderwaal & Karen Blisard, Mogollon Range, Catwalk, December 19, 2010
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