Fuscocephaloziopsis monticola
| Common Name | None |
| Frequency | Infrequent |
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Distinguishing Features
F. monticola is an infrequent species forming relatively dense albeit small turfs of stiff, compressed dark green shoots up to 3 mm wide along slopes in the high subalpine. Upclose, it has a succulent stem, leaves that are shallowly two-lobed or occasionally even three-lobed and underleaves can be present, though they are typically obscured by a dense set of hairs (“rhizoids”). Under the microscope, this species lacks oil bodies and can exhibit green, two-celled gemmae produced along young leaf tips at the shoot apex.
Similar species
On account of its large size and very compressed shoots, it is unlikely to be mistaken for any other member of Cephaloziaceae. In its habitat, however, it can coocur with species of Lophozia and Tritomaria that are superficially similair. Neither of these genera exhibit the dark green colour and deeply, symmetrically compressed shoots of F. monticola.
Habitat
Moist to wet humus, seepage sites, streambanks, pool margins, snowbed sites, heath, and tundra in the subalpine and alpine zones; infrequent in southwest BC, rare elsewhere in coastal BC.
Associated species
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Relevant Literature
- Godfrey, J.D. (1977). Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of southwestern British Columbia . [Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia]. UBC cIRcle.
- Hong, W. S. (2007). Scapania. In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Eds.), Flora of North America North of Mexico (Vol. 3) . Oxford University Press.
- Wagner, D. H. (2013). Guide to the liverworts of Oregon: Scapania undulata . Oregon State University Herbarium.