View source for Macrocoma ← Macrocoma 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=Macrocoma |accepted_authority=(Hornschuch ex Müller Hal.) Grout |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Bryologist |place=47: 4. 1944 |year=1944 }} |basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym |name=Macromitrium sect. Macrocoma |authority=Hornschuch ex Müller Hal. |rank=section |publication_title=Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) |publication_place=3: 522. 1845 }} |synonyms= |hierarchy=Orthotrichaceae;Macrocoma |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orthotrichaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Macrocoma]]</div></div> |etymology=Greek macros, long, and kome, hair, alluding to long hairs on calyptrae of some species |volume=Volume 28 |mention_page=page 38, 653 |treatment_page=page 43 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small, in mats. <b>Stems</b> creeping, branches ascending. <b>Leaves</b> closely erect-appressed, not contorted when dry, erect-spreading when moist, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, not rugose; margins entire; apex acute to narrowly obtuse [bluntly acuminate]; costa percurrent; basal laminal cells rounded to elliptic; distal cells rounded-quadrate, 7–12 µm, in vertical rows, smooth [papillose only over lumina]; marginal cells not distinct from basal. <b>Sexual</b> condition gonioautoicous; perichaetial leaves longer than branch leaves. <b>Seta</b> 4–6.5 mm. <b>Capsule</b> exserted, oblong-cylindric to fusiform, ± plicate distally or not, not constricted below mouth; stomata superficial; peristome single, of exostome or endostome; exostome teeth 16 blunt, short, papillose; or endostome basal membrane low, papillose. <b>Calyptra</b> mitrate, long elliptic-conic, basal lobes many, smooth, ± hairy, obscurely plicate, covering capsule. <b>Spores</b> isosporous, unicellular.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=se United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar);Pacific Islands (Hawaii;New Zealand);Australia. |discussion=<p>Species 11 (1 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p>Characters of <i>Macrocoma</i> include the rounded basal laminal cells, slender, irregularly branched stems, leaves erect-appressed when dry, cylindric capsules, peristome often reduced, and calyptra long conic-elliptic. There are often rhizoids present on the abaxial costa surface.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Macrocoma |authority=(Hornschuch ex Müller Hal.) Grout |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms=Macromitrium sect. Macrocoma |family=Orthotrichaceae |distribution=se United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar);Pacific Islands (Hawaii;New Zealand);Australia. |reference=None |publication title=Bryologist |publication year=1944 |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V28/V28_51.xml |genus=Macrocoma }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Orthotrichaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Orthotrichaceae (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/ID/Basionym (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Macrocoma.