Schljakovia kunzeana
Marchantiophyta
Schljakovia kunzeana (Scapaniaceae)
Kunze’s Pawwort
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Locally frequent
Distinguishing Features
Schljakovia kunzeana is another easily overlooked subalpine rock and heath-dwelling species that forms turf-forming, horizontally-overlapping linear shoots coloured green, brown and/or red and measuring up to 5 cm long and 1.5 mm wide. The lateral leaves are predominantly two-lobed, the lobes even with rounded or obtuse tips and descending down to between 1/4 and 1/2 the leaf’s length. and attach mostly across the axis of the stem ("transverse"), while the underleaves are easily seen with a hand lens and have two lobes that divide nearly to the base of the underleaf. Underleaves are less than 1/2 the heigh of the lateral leaves and asexual reproductive bodies ("gemmae") are uncommon.
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Habitat
Moist to mesic humus, rock outcrops, boulders, bogs, fens, streambanks, snowbed sites, and tundra in the montane, subalpine, and alpine zones
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