Plagiothecium piliferum (Sw.) Schimp., Bryologia Europea

Plagiothecium piliferum (Sw.) Schimp., Bryologia Europea View in CoL 5: 186, 496, Tab. III. 1851.

≡ Leskea pilifera Sw. in C. J. Hartman, Handbok i Skandinaviens Flora 419. 1820 ≡ Hypnum denticulatum var. piliferum (Sw.) Wahlenb. , Flora Suecica (Wahlenberg) 2: 710. 1826 ≡ Neckera pilifera (Sw.) Spruce , Musci Pyrenaici 66. 1847 ≡ Isopterygium piliferum (Sw.) Loeske , Studien zur Vergleichenden Morphologie und Phylogenetischen Systematik der Laubmoose 169. 1910 ≡ Plagiotheciella pilifera (Sw.) M. Fleisch. View in CoL in Brotherus, Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, Zweite Auflage, 11: 466. 1925 ≡ Dolichotheca pilifera (Sw.) M. Fleisch. ex Podp. , Conspectus Muscorum Europaeorum 683. 1954 ≡ Rectithecium piliferum (Sw.) Hedenäs & Huttunen View in CoL , Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 171 (2): 344. 2013. Type: In rupe praerupta cujus totam parietem verticalem obducit horti regalis Haga-Park prope Holmiam cl. Swartz detexit ibidemque serius legerunt Lindberg, Thedenius, Angström, W. P. Sch., e. a; ex Ostrogothiae monte Halberget cl. Holmgren, e Pyrenaeorum umbrosissima valle de Jéret ubi ad latera scopulorum graniticorum terram versus spectantia laete viget cl. R. Spruce misit.

Description.

Plants small to medium sized, light green to yellowish green; leaves more or less complanate, ovate to lanceolate, concave, symmetrical, 0.8–1.5 × 0.4–0.8 (Fig. 12 A View Figure 12 ), abruptly narrowed to a long filform acumen; the apex denticulate; laminal cells linear, 40–110 × 5–7 μm at midleaf (Fig. 12 C View Figure 12 ), cell areolation tight; decurrencies of 2–3 rows of cells; setae 0.8–1.5 cm, capsule erect.

Distribution.

Asia ( China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Japan, Republic of Korea, Russia Federation, Turkey); Europe ( Andorra, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom); North America ( Canada, U. S. A.).