View source for Saelania ← Saelania 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=Saelania |accepted_authority=Lindberg |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Utkast Eur. Bladmoss., |place=35. 1878 , }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Ditrichaceae;Saelania |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ditrichaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Saelania]]</div></div> |etymology=For Anders Thiodolf Saelan, 1834–1921, Finnish botanist |volume=Volume 27 |mention_page=page 443, 444 |treatment_page=page 458 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>tufted, glaucous bluish green or sometimes yellowish green. <b>Stems</b> short or reaching 1.5 cm, simple or branched; rhizoids at base, papillose or smooth. <b>Leaves</b> somewhat flexuose or contorted when dry, narrowly lanceolate, gradually acuminate, margins plane or narrowly recurved and entire proximally, irregularly and often doubly toothed or serrate distally; costa 1, percurrent to short-excurrent, 1/5–1/3 width of leaf base; medial laminal cells smooth subquadrate to short-rectangular, smoth. <b>Specialized</b> asexual reproduction unknown. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous; perigonia terminal on well-developed branches; perichaetial leaves not differentiated. <b>Seta</b> yellow or yellow-brown, elongate, erect. <b>Capsule</b> erect and symmetric, exserted, yellow-brown, cylindric, ± longitudinally plicate when dry and empty; annulus of 2–3 rows of large, pale cells, persistent; operculum rostrate; peristome single, teeth16, split into 2 filaments, densely papillose. <b>Calyptra</b> cucullate. <b>Spores</b> globose, finely papillose.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=North America;Europe;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands (Hawaii;New Zealand). |discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!-- --><p>Saelania is morphologically close to Ceratodon, but differs in having the leaves a glaucous blue-green; seta yellow to yellow-brown; capsule yellow-brown, erect, and somewhat plicate but not strongly sulcate when dry; peristome reddish brown, densely papillose, divided to near the base into two unbordered filaments; and spores greenish to yellowish brown and larger, 15–20(–22) µm. In Ceratodon the leaves are yellowish green to brownish or reddish green; seta reddish to purplish; capsules dark reddish brown to purplish, erect to inclined or horizontal, and when dry usually strongly sulcate; peristome teeth dark red, papillose, divided to near the base into 2 filiform segments with pale borders and the segments often united at the nodes; and spores yellow to greenish yellow, and smaller (10–15 µm).</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Saelania |author=Rodney D. Seppelt |authority=Lindberg |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Ditrichaceae |distribution=North America;Europe;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands (Hawaii;New Zealand). |reference=None |publication title=Utkast Eur. Bladmoss., |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V27/V27_662.xml |genus=Saelania }}<!-- -->[[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) Return to Saelania.