Comments
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Syntrichia ammonsiana can easily be distinguished from S. chisosa by its 1-stratose laminae.
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Description
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Stems 5-10 mm. Leaves infolded and twisted when dry, recurved when moist, broadly spatulate, 1.5-2.5 × 0.6-0.8 mm; margins plane, entire before but with a few teeth near the apex; apices acute; costa percurrent, yellow or brown, smooth; basal cells abruptly differentiated, narrower toward the margins; distal cells quadrate to hexagonal, 10-15 µm, bulging, with about 4 papillae per cell. Specialized asexual reproduction propagula borne on stalks in axils of distal leaves, leaf-like, 0.25-0.45 mm, green, papillose, costate. Sexual condition dioicous (perigonia and sporophytes unknown).
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Synonym
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Tortula ammonsiana H. A. Crum & L. E. Anderson, Bryologist 82: 469. figs. 3-5. 1979
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