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Grimmia serrana Muñoz, Shevock & Toren [Grimmiaceae]

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Grimmia serrana

   Plants to 1.5 cm high, in hoary green to gray-green cushions, opaque-green to nearly black below. Leaves loosely imbricate when dry, loosely erect-spreading when moist, somewhat concave but not at all keeled, to 3 mm long with the awn constituting nearly 1/2 of that length, ovate-lanceolate from a loosely sheathing somewhat expanded base, 2.5–3.5: 1. Median leaf cells in regular longitudinal rows, unistratose in the expanded base but uniformly bistratose in the limb, smooth, to 7 µm wide, isodiametric with lumens irregular but without corner thickenings. Marginal cells not differentiated. Basal juxtacostal cells elliptical, to 3: 1, to 15 µm wide, with irregularly thickened lateral walls. Basal marginal cells transversely elongate, 0.5–0.7: 1, to 15 µm wide. Costa flared at the base and filling 1/3–1/4 of immediate leaf base, narrowed and obscure above, percurrent in the somewhat acuminate awn. Costa cross-section at leaf middle broad and flattened, less than 1.5 times as thick as the adjacent leaf, with a weak abaxial band of stereids or substereids and with a single layer of larger cells on the adaxial face. Margin of leaf limb plane to incurved, entire below. Awn strongly decurrent with its margin somewht serrulate, and with its surface spinose-prorate. Axillary hairs to 100 µm long, with 6–8 nearly isodiametric and thick- walled cells, without a basal brown cell. Rhizoids red brown, to 15 µm wide at base, smooth. Stem cross-section rounded-triangular with a large and well-defined central strand, and with leptodermous, hyaline and large inner cortical cells, and with the 1–2 cell-thick outer stereome composed of much smaller, thick-walled cells strongly pigment with yellow to yellow-brown.

   Dioicous with male and female plants similar. Perichaetial leaves loosely sheathing base of seta, somewhat larger and with a relatively longer, less decurrent awn than the adjacent vegetative leaves. Seta to 2.5 mm long, yellow to pale brown, straight and smooth. Urn erect, symmetrical, smooth to lightly wrinkled when dry, to 1.2 mm long, 1.5–2: 1, not strumose. Operculum short rostrate, about 1/3 as long as urn. Annulus formed of 2–3 rows of relatively more thin-walled cells. Calyptra mitrate, covering about 1/2 of urn. Peristome red-brown, to 200 µm long, cribrose along median line near the apex, papillose to vertically striate-papillose. Exothecial cells to 25 µm wide, not in regular vertical rows, quite irregular in size and shape, rectangular 2–4: 1, rather thick walled. Stomata phaneroporous, restricted to base of urn. Spores smooth, to 12 µm.

 

 

 

 

 

Vouchers: Amador Co.: off of Highway 26 above North Fork Mokelumne River about 2 miles north of West Point, Toren 8669 (CAS); Butte Co.: Big Bald Rock about 3 miles south of Brush Creek Work Center east of Lake Oroville, Plumas National Forest, Toren s.n. (CAS); Calaveras Co.: Winton Road, 3.9 miles northeast of West Point, Toren 8668 (CAS); Fresno Co.: Peterson Mill Road west of Soaproot Saddle, Sierra National Forest, Shevock, York, & Clines 14975a and Mist Falls Trail, Kings Canyon National Park, Shevock & York 14479 (determined by Muñoz); Kern Co.: Kern River Road (old Highway 178) near Bodfish, Sequoia National Forest, Shevock 14871; Lake Co.: Big Rock north of Deer Valley east of Elk Mountain, Mendocino National Forest, Toren 8002 (CAS, MA) [confirmed by Muñoz] and Toren & Dearing 8657 (CAS, MA, MO, NY, UC); Madera Co.: along Forest Highway 81 between Rock and Slide Creeks, Sierra National Forest, Norris & Shevock 100060; Mariposa Co.: Merced River above El Portal entrance, Yosemite National Park, Shevock & Norris 20164; Placer Co.: Dutch Flat, MacFadden 3840 (MO) [determined by Muñoz] and Highway 20, east end of Bear Flat, Tahoe National Forest, Shevock & Toren 20707; Tulare Co.: Wishon Campground, North Fork of Middle Fork Tule River, Sequoia National Forest, Shevock & Morosco 16808 (determined by Muñoz).

Literature: Greven 2003; Muñoz et al. 2002.


Geographic subdivisions for
Grimmia serrana: CaR, NW, SN.
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Illustration References: Malcolm et al. 2009 p. 69; Greven 2003; Muñoz et al. 2002.

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