A COMPARISON OF FISSIDENS APPALACHENSIS AND F-BRYOIDES VAR PUSILLUS

Authors
PURSELL RA ALLEN B
Citation
Ra. Pursell et B. Allen, A COMPARISON OF FISSIDENS APPALACHENSIS AND F-BRYOIDES VAR PUSILLUS, The Bryologist, 99(1), 1996, pp. 75-80
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences
Journal title
The Bryologist → ACNP
ISSN journal
00072745
Volume
99
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
75 - 80
Database
ISI
SICI code
0007-2745(1996)99:1<75:ACOFAA>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
Fissidens appalachensis lander has been discovered in Pennsylvania, so me 450 miles (720 kilometers) northeast of its previously known area o f distribution in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The s pecies differs from F. bryoides Hedw. var. pusillus (Wilson) Pursell i n Alien in its usually larger plants, longer and comparatively narrowe r leaves, stronger limbidia, percurrent costae, and infrequently bistr atose laminal cells.