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Ulota funstoni

Comprehensive Description

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Ulota funstoni Grout, Moss Fl. N. Am. 2: 137. 1935
Plants small, 5-10 mm. high, little branched; leaves slightly contorted and imbricate when dry, erect-spreading when moist, the lower ± 1.2 mm. long, narrowly lanceolate from an ovate, concave base, acute to obtuse, the upper and perichaetial 2-2.3 mm. long, 0.7 mm. broad at the base, ovate-lanceolate, broadly obtuse, often concave at the apex, the margins mostly plane, often somewhat recurved near the base; costa strong, ending below the apex; upper leaf-cells multiform, subcircular to elliptic, very thickwalled, irregularly rounded, the lumen 6-10 y. in diameter, more or less papillose with low, broad papillae; basal cells smooth, the median oblong to linear, colored, the basal marginal shorter but the hyaline marginal band narrower or lacking; autoicous; antheridial buds in the axils of the upper leaves; seta 3-4 mm. long; capsules long-exserted, pyriform-clavate, the neck long, slender, 2.4 mm. long, strongly 8-ribbed and somewhat contracted below the mouth when dry and empty, when old subcylindric; exothecial cells in alternating strips of oblong-rectangular and subcircular to short-oblong cells; stomata numerous, superficial, near the base of the spore-sac; operculum conic-rostrate; peristometeeth 16, reflexed when dry, slender, 0.25-0.35 mm. long, perforate and trabeculate above, pale, darker at the base, papillose with large, slender papillae, 1-2 p in height; segments not seen, either lacking or very fragile (operculate capsules were studied) ; spores about 20 ju in diameter, maturing in summer.
Type locality: Vicinity of Yakutat Bay, Alaska (Frederick Funston 158).
Distribution: Alaska (Piper 2369a).
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North American flora. vol 15A (1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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