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NZ Plants
Chiastocaulon conjugatum (Plagiochilion conjugatum)
Family: Plagiochilaceae
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Plants
I MacDonald
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Shoots with descending stolons
L Jensen
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Base of shoots with stolons bearing rhizoids
L Jensen
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Growing shoot tip
L Jensen
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Older shoot with leaves
L Jensen
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Detached leaf
L Jensen
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Terminal, fertile region of male shoot with bracts (reduced leaves)
L Jensen
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Bract removed to expose an antheridium
L Jensen
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Antheridia
L Jensen
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Female shoots with sporophytes
L Jensen
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Sporophyte consisting of a seta (stem) and an unopened, terminal sporangium
L Jensen
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Chiastocaulon conjugatum forms loose patches of large, robust and erect plants with opposite and almost circular, yellow-brown leaves. Leaves are near vertical when dry but spreading when moist and margins have jagged teeth. Underleaves are not developed to a visible size in this genus.
Found throughout New Zealand on trees and logs in moist forest often as an epiphyte
