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NZ Plants
Hymenodon pilifer
Family: Orthodontiaceae
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Plants on a tree fern trunk (Cyathea medullaris)
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Plants
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Plants on tree fern trunk
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Shoots
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Leaves
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Sporophyte plants
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Immature capsule with calyptra partially covering the operculum lid
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Mature capsule with spores being shed from between the peristome teeth
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Capsule with peristome teeth
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Hymenodon pilifer is a moss with stems up to 2 cm tall, branched only from the base. The leaves are oblong to elliptic with a vein (nerve) that ends below the leaf tip. The tip is extended into a distinctive, long hair point, unusual in not containing a vein (nerve).
Widespread in New Zealand in moist forest as an epiphyte on certain tree fern species and on nikau palm trunks.
