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NZ Plants
Ctenidium pubescens
Family Hypnaceae
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Plants
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Shoot with branches
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Growing region of shoot
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Mature region of shoot
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Immature sporophyte with elongating seta (stem) and terminal calyptra covering
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Perichaetial bracts at base of seta
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Calyptra covering of immature capsule
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Calyptra being shed by developing capsule
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Calyptra shed exposing the capsule operculum (lid)
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Ctenidium pubescens has creeping to ascending stems that are regularly to irregularly pinnately branched to form yellowish green mats. Leaves are 0.8–1.2 mm long, 0.25–0.40 mm wide, ovate to triangular-lanceolate and taper to a fine tip which is often twisted. Leaf margins are strongly toothed and the capsule covering (calyptra) is hairy.
Widespread in New Zealand on soil, rock and tree bases or as an epiphyte in moist forest.
