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NZ Plants
Ephemerum serratum
Family Ephemeraceae
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Location, on soil at base of London plane tree
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Plants
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Plant detail
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Detached plant with persistent protonema filaments
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Detached leaf
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Detail of leaf margin
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Immature capsule with calyptra covering
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Plants with mature capsules
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Mature capsule
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Ephemerum serratum is an extremely small moss (0.5-2.5 mm in height) with a persistent, conspicuous protonema of alglal-like filaments. Leaves are less than 2 mm long, lack a nerve and have a strongly toothed margin. Capsules are sessile (seta or stalk short-to-absent), bright red and lack an operculum lid, releasing spores only when the capsule wall decays.
Widespread in New Zealand on soil.
