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Sphagnum pulchrum
Temperate and oceanic in occurrence, this species has green cells of the branch leaves that do not reach the concave surface, a branch leaf pore pattern similar to that of S. fallax, and concave stem leaves with fibrils in their upper portion. The branch leaves are distinctly 5-ranked.
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Sphagnum pulchrum in the field. |
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| Habit: | Large yellow-green plants forming loose carpets, apitulum rounded and with 1-2 pendant branches visible between capitulum arms |
| Stems: | colorless to green, hyalodermis not enlarged |
| Leaves: | shortly ovate-lanceolate and narrow to a truncate, acuminate apex, distinctly 5-ranked on the branches; stem leaves triangular-ovate, apiculate, concave, spreading outward from the stem wiht som efibrils in upper portion |
| Leaf Cells: | long on convex surface wiht a few small pores restricted to the corners and margins, the concave surface with a few larger round pores along th esides of the cell, green cells, rounded, triangular, not exposed on the concave surface and broadly exposed on the convex surface |
| Habitat: | In mounds and carpets in poor fens, sometimes forming carpets in oceanic bogs |
| Common Associates: | Occuring with Sphagnum papillosum and S. tenellum. |
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