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Published In: Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden 21(3): 35. 1971. (Mem. New York Bot. Gard.) Name publication detail
 

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There are about 13 species in the world, and eight species and one variety are found in China.

 

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6. Polytrichastrum G. L. Smith   拟金发藓属   ni jin fa xian shu
Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 21(3): 35. 1971.
 
Plants small to large. Stems erect, simple or branched, in scattered or gregarious tufts. Leaves densely crowded at stem tips, slightly crisped when dry, erect-spreading, sometimes fugacious when moist, basal leaves mostly scale-like, densely appressed; lanceolate or narrowly lingulate from a strongly sheathing base; lamellae on the ventral side of costa, sharply spinulose on the back above; margins entire or serrate; costa narrow; median cells nearly rounded to rounded quadrate, sometimes nearly oblate. Dioicous. Perigonia in rosettes; perigonial leaves short. Perichaetial leaves similar to the stem leaves, usually with broadly sheathing base. Setae slender; capsules erect or inclined, with 4–6 obtuse keels, cylindrical, apophyses usually distinct, with stomata at base of urns, epiphragm fleshy; peristome teeth mostly 64, rarely 32; annuli differentiated, deciduous; opercula beaked. Calyptrae cucullate, densely ciliate, yellowish hairy. Spores spherical or rounded ovoid, minutely papillose.
 
 
 
 

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1. Apical cells of leaf lamellae papillose............................................................................................2
1. Apical cells of leaf lamellae not papillose.......................................................................................3
2. Plants up to 10 cm high, often branched; lateral view of leaf lamellae truncate above, cross section of apical cells large, rounded ovate, grossly papillose................................................................. 1. P. alpinum
2. Plants shorter, not branched; lateral view of leaf lamellae rounded above; cross section of apical cells pyriform, strawberry-like papillae........................................................................................ 6. P. papillatum
3. Capsules ovoid-cylindrical or sometimes globose, keels not very distinct; apical cells of lamellae pyriform or flask-formed.................................................................................................................................4
3. Capsules cubic or prismatic, with 4–6 obtuse keels; apical cells of lamellae not pyriform, often broader than the lower cells...............................................................................................................................5
4. Leaf margins plane, clearly serrate; peristome teeth 32..............................................2. P. emodi
4. Leaf margins distinctly incurved, entire; peristome 64.................................................7. P. sexangulare
5. Stems often more than 10 cm high; leaf lamellae mostly in 60–80 rows; apical cells of lamellae not differentiated from the cells below.....................................................................................................6
5. Stems usually less than 10 cm high; leaf lamellae in less than 50 rows; apical cells differentiated or larger than the ones below..........................................................................................................................7
6. Plants dioicous; lamellae 35–65 µm high; apical cells entire.................... 3a. P. formosum var. formosum
6. Plants autoicous; lamellae (50–)60–80 µm high; apical cells crenulate...... 3b. P. formosum var. densifolium
7. Cross section of apical cells of leaf lamellae truncate; costa broad................................5. P. ohioense
7. Cross section of apical cells of leaf lamellae rounded ovate, nearly quadrate or arched; costa rather narrow..............................................................................................................................................8
8. Plants rather large, sometimes branched; apical cells of leaf lamellae rounded or nearly quadrate; the diameter of spores less than 15 µm................................................................................... 8. P. xanthopilum
8. Plants small, not branched; apical cells of leaf lamellae rounded; the diameter of spores larger than 15 µm, but less than 20 µm.......................................................................................................... 4. P. longisetum
 
 
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