Thuidium delicatulum

Plants green or yellowish brown. Stems 3–8 cm, 2- or 3-pinnate, ± frondose; paraphyllia usually papillose at cell ends. Stem leaves ± erect, appressed when dry, erect-spreading when moist, triangular-ovate, not plicate, 0.6–1.5 mm; margins revolute throughout, papillose-serrulate; apex acuminate; costa ending well before apex; distal laminal cells irregularly oblong-hexagonal or rhombic, 6–10 × 8–12 µm, papillae sometimes 2-fid, not appearing multipapillose. Branch leaves apical cell truncate, multipapillose. Primary branch leaves to 0.5 mm; costa 1/2–2/3 leaf length. Secondary branch leaves 0.3 mm; apex acute; costa to 1/2 leaf length. Perichaetial leaves to 5 mm, margins not ciliate to ciliate proximally, often denticulate distally. Seta 1.5–4.5 cm. Capsule 1.8–4 mm; operculum 0.7–2 mm, long-rostrate; endostome cilia in groups of 2 or 3. Spores 12–24 µm, smooth.

Thuidium Delicatulum

Thuidium delicatulum

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