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Encalypta

Encalypta
Family: Encalyptaceae
Encalypta image
Tony Frates
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Robert E. Magill in Flora of North America (vol. 27)
Plants small to medium sized, frequently gregarious. Stems irregularly branched, occasionally tomentose; central strand absent or weakly differentiated. Leaves oblong, elliptic, narrowly spathulate or occasionally lanceolate; apex broadly acute to rounded, mucronate to hair-pointed, occasionally cucullate; margins plane to weakly recurved on one or both sides, entire; costa single, subpercurrent to long-excurrent, awn smooth, hyaline; distal laminal cells more or less quadrate, papillose on one or both exposed surfaces with several large, branching or C-shaped papillae; marginal cells sometimes longer proximally, forming a very weak border; basal cells long-rectangular, thin-walled, generally smooth, cross walls frequently distinctly colored. Sexual condition autoicous. Seta elongate, smooth, brown to red or dark red. Capsule generally long-exserted or just emergent, erect to inclined, cylindric, smooth or distinctly furrowed; gymnostomous or peristomate, stomata few; peristome single, double or absent, exostome frequently reduced to small, irregular projections or teeth long, narrow, papillose; operculum usually conic-rostrate. Calyptra smooth or papillose distally or frequently only on rostrum, entire, fringed or lacerate below, fringe small or well developed. Spores generally large, ornamentation papillose to warty, or ridged.

The large, straw-colored calyptrae of Encalypta are generally present in mature colonies, growing on shallow soil over rock in exposed or moderately sheltered recesses. Encalypta can be separated from the only other genus in the family, Bryobrittonia, by papillose distal leaf cells and more or less entire leaf margins.

Encalypta microstoma Balsamo & De Notaris

No specimens were seen; see D. G. Horton (1983).

Species within inventory project: Arizona Flora
Encalypta affinis
Media resource of Encalypta affinis
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Encalypta alpina
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Encalypta brevicolla
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Encalypta brevicollis
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Encalypta brevipes
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Encalypta ciliata
Media resource of Encalypta ciliata
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Encalypta flowersiana
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Encalypta intermedia
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Encalypta longicolla
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Encalypta longicollis
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Encalypta microstoma
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Encalypta mutica
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Encalypta procera
Media resource of Encalypta procera
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Encalypta rhaptocarpa
Media resource of Encalypta rhaptocarpa
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Encalypta sibirica
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Encalypta spathulata
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Encalypta streptocarpa
Media resource of Encalypta streptocarpa
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Encalypta texana
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Encalypta vittiana
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Encalypta vulgaris
Media resource of Encalypta vulgaris
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