Fissidens rigidulus J. D. Hooker & Wilson 1854

Fissidens rigidulus

Fissidens rigidulus Hook. f. & Wils., Fl. Nov. Zel. 2:61, 1854. [Original material: New Zealand, East Cape, coll. Sinclair; Wellington, coll. Lyall; Auckland, coll. Knight.]

Large, usually somewhat aquatic plants forming coarse mats. Stems to 5 cm high, rigid, dark green. Leaves to 4 mm long, to 0.8 mm wide, acute, strict, slightly twisted when dry; vaginant lamina 1/2–2/3 of leaf length; dorsal lamina tapering to leaf base; margin from base with border of multistratose, elongate cells which are confluent apically with percurrent costa; cells of lamina subquadrate to short-rectangular, 6–7 μm in diameter, mostly bistratose. Seta 4–8 mm long. Spores ca. 20 μm in diameter.

MAS AFUERA: Q. Casas, innermost accessible part, H. & E. 356.

MAS A TIERRA: Q. Damajuana, Sk. 63; Pangal Falls, H. & E. 182; V. Colonial, trail to Portezuelo de Villagra, 240 m, I. 37685.

The species is widely distributed in the southern hemisphere, occurring in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, the Andes, and southern South America.