Status: Native
Synonyms:
Bryum pallens (Bridel) Swartz
Ptychostomum pallens is notable for its pinkish to reddish color, revolute margins with a wide limbidium (margin), and percurrent to short excurrent costa. The capsule is pyriform, more or less pear-shaped. Ptychostomum pallens is found on wet soil. The stem is obviously pentagonal throughout on this specimen
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Ptychostomum pallens, collection David Bleakly, Valencia County, SE of Las Lunas, above Ojo Alamo Spring west of the Manzano Mtns., May 16, 2002; photos Kelly Allred, Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, November 12, 2022
Ptychostomum pallens, closeup of stems, collection David Bleakly, Valencia County, SE of Las Lunas, above Ojo Alamo Spring west of the Manzano Mtns., May 16, 2002; photos Kelly Allred, Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, November 12, 2022
Ptychostomum pallens, photomicrograph of leaf, collection David Bleakly, Valencia County, SE of Las Lunas, above Ojo Alamo Spring west of the Manzano Mtns., May 16, 2002; photos Kelly Allred, Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, November 12, 2022
Ptychostomum pallens, photomicrograph of leaf apex, collection David Bleakly, Valencia County, SE of Las Lunas, above Ojo Alamo Spring west of the Manzano Mtns., May 16, 2002; photos Kelly Allred, Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, November 12, 2022
Ptychostomum pallens, photomicrograph of leaf margin, collection David Bleakly, Valencia County, SE of Las Lunas, above Ojo Alamo Spring west of the Manzano Mtns., May 16, 2002; photos Kelly Allred, Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, November 12, 2022
Ptychostomum pallens, photomicrograph of leaf base, collection David Bleakly, Valencia County, SE of Las Lunas, above Ojo Alamo Spring west of the Manzano Mtns., May 16, 2002; photos Kelly Allred, Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, November 12, 2022
Ptychostomum pallens, photomicrograph of leaf cross section, collection David Bleakly, Valencia County, SE of Las Lunas, above Ojo Alamo Spring west of the Manzano Mtns., May 16, 2002; photos Kelly Allred, Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, November 12, 2022
Ptychostomum pallens, photomicrograph of cross section at two-stratose portion of leaf margin, collection David Bleakly, Valencia County, SE of Las Lunas, above Ojo Alamo Spring west of the Manzano Mtns., May 16, 2002; photos Kelly Allred, Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, November 12, 2022
Ptychostomum pallens, photomicrograph of capsule, collection David Bleakly, Valencia County, SE of Las Lunas, above Ojo Alamo Spring west of the Manzano Mtns., May 16, 2002; photos Kelly Allred, Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, November 12, 2022
Ptychostomum pallens, photomicrograph of stem cross section, collection David Bleakly, Valencia County, SE of Las Lunas, above Ojo Alamo Spring west of the Manzano Mtns., May 16, 2002; photos Kelly Allred, Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, November 12, 2022
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