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NZ Plants
Tortula muralis
Family: Pottiaceae
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Plants growing on mortar between bricks
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Plants
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Leaves
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Leaves
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Leaves when dry
muralis
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Male shoot tip from above with sterile filaments of cells (paraphyses)
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Male shoot tip, longitudinal section to show paraphyses
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Male shoot tip, paraphyses removed to expose several sperm-conaining antheridia
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Young sporophyte plant
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Calyptra covering immature capsule
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Calyptra covering being shed
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Calyptra (right) detached from capsule (left)
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Sporophyte plants with calyptras shed
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Capsule with operculum lid
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Peristome
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Tortula muralis forms short, branched or unbranched, stems bearing dense clusters of oblong-elliptic leaves with a blunt tip. The vein (nerve) extends beyond the leaf tip to form a long, smooth hair point. The capsules are erect and cylindrical in shape.
Found throughout New Zealand on rock, brick walls and cement where it forms small cushion-like colonies.
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