View source for Trichodon ← Trichodon You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Trichodon |accepted_authority=Schimper |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Coroll. Bryol. Eur., |place=36. 1856 , }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Ditrichaceae;Trichodon |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ditrichaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Trichodon]]</div></div> |etymology=Greek trichos, hair, and odon, tooth, alluding to slender divisions of peristome |volume=Volume 27 |mention_page=page 443, 444, 467 |treatment_page=page 459 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>scattered or in loose tufts, light- to yellowish green. <b>Stems</b> 0.2–0.4 cm, simple; rhizoids at base, papillose. <b>Leaves</b> slightly contorted when dry, subulate, tubulose, base broad and sheathing; margins plane or incurved, serrate to enlarged portion of leaf base; costa percurrent to excurrent, filling distal part of subula, strongly prorulose on abaxial surface; medial laminal cells rectangular, sometimes quadrate and irregularly angled on margins, smooth or prorulose. <b>Specialized</b> asexual reproduction sometimes present, as smooth, round or irregularly shaped tubers on rhizoids. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous; male and female plants about the same size; perichaetial leaves not differentiated. <b>Seta</b> yellow to red, elongate, erect. <b>Capsule</b> erect to inclined, exserted, yellowish to reddish brown, cylindric, slightly curved or sometimes straight, smooth; annulus of 1–3 rows of large cells, deciduous; operculum conic to short-rostrate; peristome single, teeth 16, divided nearly to base to form two filiform segments, papillose. <b>Calyptra</b> cucullate. <b>Spores</b> globose, minutely papillose.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=North America;Europe;Asia in boreal and arctic areas. |discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=ireland1978a |text=Ireland, R. R. 1978. Trichodon in North America. Bryologist 81: 150–154. }} }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Trichodon |author=Robert R. Ireland Jr. |authority=Schimper |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Ditrichaceae |distribution=North America;Europe;Asia in boreal and arctic areas. |reference=ireland1978a |publication title=Coroll. Bryol. Eur., |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V27/V27_664.xml |genus=Trichodon }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Ditrichaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Ditrichaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Trichodon.