Status: Native
Synonyms:
Osculatia macrocarpa(Cardot) Ochyra, Plášek & Bedn.-Ochyra
Brachymenium macrocarpum is suggested by the leaves that are tightly spiraled around the
stem. There is a limbidium. The cells at the base of the leaf are quadrate or nearly so. The apex is serrulate with a percurrent costa or short hairpoint. There are no filiform gemmae in the leaf axils. There are clusters of red-brown to black rhizoidal tubers. Many thanks to the VML members, Kelly Allred and John Brinda for help
securing an ID for this moss!
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Brachymenium macrocarpum, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Grant County, Pinos Altos Range, Hwy 15 at Signal Peak turnoff, bottom of dry seasonal creekbed on soil over root over rock, July 2, 2026
Brachymenium macrocarpum, dark field photomicrograph of 2 dry stems, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Grant County, Pinos Altos Range, Hwy 15 at Signal Peak turnoff, bottom of dry seasonal creekbed on soil over root over rock, July 2, 2026
Brachymenium macrocarpum, photomicrograph of 2 moistened stems, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Grant County, Pinos Altos Range, Hwy 15 at Signal Peak turnoff, bottom of dry seasonal creekbed on soil over root over rock, July 2, 2026
Brachymenium macrocarpum, photomicrograph of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Grant County, Pinos Altos Range, Hwy 15 at Signal Peak turnoff, bottom of dry seasonal creekbed on soil over root over rock, July 2, 2026
Brachymenium macrocarpum, photomicrograph of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Grant County, Pinos Altos Range, Hwy 15 at Signal Peak turnoff, bottom of dry seasonal creekbed on soil over root over rock, July 2, 2026
Brachymenium macrocarpum, photomicrograph of leaf apex, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Grant County, Pinos Altos Range, Hwy 15 at Signal Peak turnoff, bottom of dry seasonal creekbed on soil over root over rock, July 2, 2026
Brachymenium macrocarpum, photomicrograph of leaf base, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Grant County, Pinos Altos Range, Hwy 15 at Signal Peak turnoff, bottom of dry seasonal creekbed on soil over root over rock, July 2, 2026
Brachymenium macrocarpum, photomicrograph of cells and limbidium at midleaf, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Grant County, Pinos Altos Range, Hwy 15 at Signal Peak turnoff, bottom of dry seasonal creekbed on soil over root over rock, July 2, 2026
Brachymenium macrocarpum, photomicrograph of clusters of rhizoidal tubers, photo Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, Grant County, Pinos Altos Range, Hwy 15 at Signal Peak turnoff, bottom of dry seasonal creekbed on soil over root over rock, July 2, 2026
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