2. Ptychomitrium Fürnr.   缩叶藓属 suo-ye xian shu

Flora 12 (Erg.) 2: 19. 1829, nom. cons.

 

Plants small to robust, green to yellowish green above, brown or black below, in loose or dense tufts. Stems erect or ascending, simple or branched; central strand well developed. Leaves often crisped or incurved, sometimes contorted when dry, erect-spreading to widely spreading when moist, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, sometimes keeled, concave above; margins erect or recurved, entire to strongly toothed above; costa single, strong, percurrent or ending below the apex; upper and median leaf cells small, rounded-quadrate to subquadrate, often bistratose, obscure, thick-walled, sometimes with sinuose walls; basal cells rectangular to elongate, thin-walled or with sinuose walls. Autoicous. Perigonia just below perichaetia. Perichaetial leaves not differentiated. Setae short to long, straight; capsules erect, symmetric, ovoid to oblong-ellipsoid, smooth; annuli none or well developed, consisting of thick-walled cells; peristome teeth 16, lanceolate to liner-lanceolate, deeply and irregularly splitting into 2–3 filiform, densely papillose segments; opercula with a short to long beak. Calyptrae mitrate, longitudinally plicate, lobed at the base, covering half to nearly the entire capsule. Spores spherical, coarsely to finely papillose or sometimes nearly smooth.

 

 

1. Upper leaf margins entire; calyptrae reaching the base of capsules; plants about 1 cm high........................... 2

1. Upper leaf margins serrate; calyptrae only reaching the middle of capsules; plants more than 2 cm high..... 3

2. Leaves narrowly lanceolate from an ovate base, strongly concave and keeled above when moist; annuli absent............................................................................................................................................... 2. P. fauriei

2. Leaves oblong-lanceolate from a short, oblong base, plane or slightly incurved above when moist; annuli well developed.................................................................................................................... 7. P. sinense

3. Leaves oblong-ovate to broadly lanceolate, obtuse to broadly acute at the apex.............................................. 4

3. Leaves linear-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate from a broad base, acuminate to acute at the apex.............. 5

4. Leaves narrowly oblong-ovate to broadly lanceolate from a narrowly oblong base; peristome teeth divided into 2 long, subulate divisions; opercula with a short beak....................................... 1. P. dentatum

4. Leaves oblong-ovate from a wide, sub-ovate base; peristome teeth divided into three short divisions; opercula with a long beak ............................................................................................................ 9. P. wilsonii

5. Median and basal leaf cells with sinuose, thick walls.......................................................................................... 6

5. Median and basal leaf cells with straight, thin walls............................................................................................ 7

6. Upper part of leaves strongly contorted when dry, often secund when moist; median and basal leaf cells with strongly sinuose walls; annuli undifferentiated .................................................................. 8. P. tortula

6. Upper part of leaves crisped when dry, straight when moist; median and basal leaf cells with only somewhat sinuose walls; annuli well developed.................................................................. 3. P. formosicum

7. Leaves scarcely plicate at the base; upper part of leaves long, linear; plants 2–3 cm high......................5. P. linearifolium

7. Leaves distinctly plicate at the base; upper part of leaves short, lanceolate; plants 3–5 cm high.................... 8

8. Upper and median leaf cells smooth; peristome 2–3 cleft to the base.................................. 4. P. gardneri

8. Upper and median leaf cells bulging on the adaxial surfaces; peristome bifid to the base................... 6. P. mamillosum