Aulacomnium palustre
(Hedw.) Schwägr.Probably dioicous. Asexual reproduction by leaf-like, ecostate gemmae borne on a terminal pseudopodium 1.5–5 mm long. Tufts on soil, yellowish green, 2.5–6 (–10) cm tall. Stems simple or branching by innovation, densely tomentose with dark brown rhizoids. Leaves crisped and spirally flexuose when dry towards stem apex, erect-spreading when moist, oblong to linear-lanceolate, 2–4 mm long, 0.6–0.75 mm wide; apex obtuse, cucullate, or acute and almost erect; costa ending below apex; margin finely and irregularly denticulate toward apex, recurved in the basal half, plane toward apex; laminal cells isodiametric to short-rectangular but irregular, 10–15 μm wide, papillose, pigmented and slightly enlarged at base. Sporophytes unknown in Australia. Seta 30–50 mm long. Capsule inclined to horizontal, 3–4 mm long. Operculum apiculate.
HSF, VAlp. In bogs, beside creeks or in wet depressions or grassland in the alpine and subalpine zones of the Dargo and Bogong High Plains and near Mount Cobberas. Also NSW, ACT, Tas and Macquarie Island. New Zealand, southern and northern South America, Canada, USA, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Europe, Asia and East Africa.
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