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NZ Plants
Rhynchostegium tenuifolium
Family: Brachytheciaceae
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Plant
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Branching stem
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Stem, leaf detail
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Detached leaf
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Detached leaf, margin detail
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Sporophyte plant
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Perichaetial bracts at base of seta
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Young sporophyte with calyptra covering
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Maturing capsule with calyptra covering
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Maturing capsule, calyptra shed to expose the operculum lid
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Older capsule with operculum
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Mature capsule, operculum shed exposing the peristome teeth
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Mature capsule, inner and outer peristome teeth with green spores being shed.
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Rhynchostegium tenuifolium forms irregularly branching, creeping stems with widely spreading leaves somewhat flattened into one plane. Leaf margins are toothed with a tapering tip and a vein (nerve) that extends beyond half way but fails before the leaf tip. The seta (stalk) is smooth and the capsule lid (operculum) has a long beak.
Widespread in New Zealand on rotting wood, soil or rock.
