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Description
Autoicous. Plants similar to the preceding species. Leaves to c. 2.5 mm long and 1 mm wide, widest above the middle, spreading to erect-patent below; upper leaves crowded, concave, broadly oblong-ovate to obovate, with a long slender point; margins entire or bluntly toothed, crumpled and slow to wet when dry; costa ceasing below the apex to percurrent. Upper laminal cells lax, thin-walled, irregularly rectangular, 150–200 × 60–80 μm in mid-leaf; 1 or 2 rows of marginal cells narrower; basal laminal cells rectangular.
Perigonium terminal, later overtopped by a female branch arising by innovation. Setae to 10 mm long. Capsules c. 1.5–2.0 mm long and 0.8–1.0 mm wide, narrowly pyriform, gibbous, asymmetrical; mouth oblique, c. 0.4 mm wide, red-rimmed, striate when fresh, less strongly sulcate than the preceding species when dry and empty; operculum low, domed. Peristome double; exostome teeth orange, spirally curved, joined at the tips to an ephemeral central disc, papillose-striate below, with much less pronounced transverse bars; endostome segments rudimentary, low and membranous or undetectable. Spores yellow-brown, 23–30 µm, rather sparsely ornamented with low rounded papillae.
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Habitat and Distribution
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Occurs in W.A., S.A. and Vic. Also in Europe, NE Asia, North Africa, U.S.A. (California) and Canada (Newfoundland).
Apparently halotolerant and found both in seaside marshes and beside inland salt lakes.
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Nomenclature And Typification
Funaria microstoma Bruch ex Schimp., Flora 23: 850 (1840). Type: Switzerland; n.v.
Funaria salsicola Müll.Hal., Hedwigia 41: 120 (1902). Type: Dimboola, Vic., 26 July 1896, F.M.Reader; CHR-Beckett, MEL, NSW.
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Representative Herbarium Specimens
W.A.: Poonthoon Pool, Whelia Ck, Mileura Stn.
N.T.: Burbidge & A.Kanis 8137.
S.A.: Meningie, L.D.Williams 1010.
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Taxonomic Notes
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Funaria microstoma is morphologically close to F. hygrometrica, and the two species are almost indistinguishable in the absence of sporophytes.
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Illustrations
D.G.Catcheside, Mosses of South Australia 230, fig. 129 (1980), as F. salsicola.
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Taxonomy from
- Phylum: Bryophyta
- Class: Bryopsida
- Subclass: Funariidae
- Order: Funariales
- Family: Funariaceae
- Genus: Funaria
- Species: Funaria microstoma
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Last updated: Unknown; Feb 29, 2024 12:43
Status: Complete
Author - Allan J. Fife & Rodney D. Seppelt
Editor(s) - Pat M. McCarthy (2012)
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Cite this profile as: Allan J. Fife & Rodney D. Seppelt (2024) Funaria microstoma. In: Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/boa/profile/Funaria%20microstoma [Date Accessed: 08 April 2025]