Reddish-leaved Moss: "Leaves"

Reddish-leaved Moss (Syntrichia antarctica)

Class:

Plants (Plantae) - Mosses & Liverworts (Bryophyta) - Mosses (Bryopsida) - Mosses & Liverworts

Order:

Mosses (Pottiales)

Family:

Moss (Pottiaceae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Reddish-leaved Moss (Syntrichia antarctica)

This Photo:

🔍"Leaves"🔎

Thank you Alan Dandie for identifying and Andrew Thornhill for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Alan said "From Mosses of Dry Forests, by Read and Slattery, 'robust, strap-shaped leaves have a rounded tip with a long, whitish toothed hairpoint.....the nerve is usually a distinct reddish brown. The long cylindrical capsules sit erect on reddish stalks. The lid is long and conical...' Matches your observation to a T."

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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