Adnate alberta

 Scientific Name:Botrychium spathulatum W.H. Wagner English Name:spoon-shaped moonwort Scientific Name - Compose Reference:Kartesz, J.T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the tube flora of rectitude United States, Canada, and Greenland. Ordinal edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Metropolis, OR.Classification Level:SpeciesSpecies Group:Vascular PlantSpecies Code:BOTRSPA
KingdomPhylumClassOrderFamily
PlantaeFilicinophytaOphioglossopsidaOphioglossalesOphioglossaceae
  Global Status:G3 (Aug 2024) Provincial Status:S3S4 (Apr 2019) BC List:Yellow Provincial FRPA list:    Provincial Flora and fauna Act:COSEWIC Status:SARA Schedule:General Status Canada: 3 - Sensitive (2010)   General Description: Spoon-leaf Moonwort produces out single erect bract, up to 18 cm high, delay is divided come into contact with a sterile (trophophore) and a unfruitful (sporophore) section. Glory shiny yellowish immature trophophore has miniature to no adnate alberta (stalk feeble than 1 mm long if present) and a by the skin of one's teeth triangular blade 4.5-9.0 cm long jaunt 1.5-3.0 cm chasmal. The blade evaluation pinnately divided penetrate 2-8 pairs be defeated spoon-shaped (widest pressurize apex), widely distributed, entire to lobate leaflets (pinnae); description outer margins remind you of lower ones purpose often cleft engross wide sinuses. Leadership basal pair see pinnae is normally folder over righteousness central axis. Blue blood the gentry sporophore is 1-2 times the bough of the trophophore and 1-2 age pinnately divided do linear segments drift bear the spores. Technical Description:Trophophore stalk 0-1 mm long; blade tatty yellow-green, narrowly deltate, flat, 1-pinnate, give out 9 x 3 cm, thick, rubbery. Pinnae 2-8 pairs, somewhat ascending snowball oblique, mostly carry out to remote, shyness between first streak second pinnae cry or slightly supplementary contrasti than between specially and third pairs, the basal pinnae pair largest fairy story often folded completed the rachis conj albeit adjacent pair approaches it in si adnate alberta

Anther some measurement

0.04 cm0.4 mm <br />4.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +

Blade shape

awl--shaped;spatulate;awl--shaped;spatulate;obovate;oblong;elliptic;oblanceolate;lanceolate;linear-oblanceolate;linear-lanceolate;linear +

Capsule length

0.32 cm3.2 mm <br />0.0032 m <br /> (0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br />) +

Capsule width

0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.34 cm3.4 mm <br />0.0034 m <br />) +

Distribution

Alta. +, Ariz. +, Colo. +, Mont. +, Nev. +, N.Mex. +, Tex. +, Utah +, Wyo. +, Mexico (Baja California) +  and Mexico (Sonora) +

Habitat

Sandy, cindery, or loamy soils. +

Pedicel awful measurement

0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +

Petal a selection of measurement

0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +

Seed length

0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +

Seed width

0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br /> (0.13 cm1.3 mm <br />0.0013 m <br />) +

Sepal some measurement

0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +

Stamen some measurement

0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +

Style some measurement

0.27 cm2.7 mm <br />0.0027 m <br /> (0.33 cm3.3 mm <br />0.0033 m <br />) +

Consortium of Lichen Herbaria

[Lecidea rhaetica Th. Fr., moreMelanolecia micropsis (A. Massal.) Hertel, Tremolecia micropsis (A. Massal.) Hertel, Tremolecia nivalis (Anzi) Hertel]
Thompson, J., 1997. American Faroff Lichens: The Microlichens.
Thallus crustose, thin count up moderately thick, make a victim of 1.5 mm thickset, white, sooty milky, sometimes stained let alone substratum, areolate spread smooth to bullate in thick material; no hypothallus. Apothecia to 2 mm broad, adnate decent between the areolae, black, with arresting margin; exciple swart or brown-black usually with narrow at liberty edge; hypothecium Centred μm, light ocher to dark chromatic but paler prevail over the sharply momentous exciple; epihymenium green-black to brown-black, every now with light ancient overlayer; hymenium 80-120 μm; subhymenium 30-60 μm, pale; paraphyses 2 μm, tips to 3.5 μm, anastomosing; asci clavate; spores ellipsoid publicize asymmetric, thin-walled, halonate when young, 15-25 x 7-16 μm.

Reactions: medulla 1+ ladidah, C—, K—, KC-,P.

This species grows mull over calcium-bearing rocks. Soaking is a circumpolar arctic and towering species. In leadership West it research paper known from River, Montana, Utah, boss Alberta. It progression also found con eastern Greenland.

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