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NZ Plants
Distichophyllum crispulum
Family Daltoniaceae
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Plants
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Plants
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Shoots
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Shoot tip with leaves
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Leaf
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Detail of vein and leaf border of elongated cells
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Immature sporophyte with elongated stem (seta) and a terminal calyptra cover
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The calyptra covers a very young capsule
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An older, enlarging capsule beginning to shed the calyptra
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Distichophyllum crispulum forms small, soft, dull-green, loose to compact layered mats. Shoots are prostrate to weakly ascendant and irregularly branched. Leaves are 1-2.4 mm long, lie in one plane, are oblanceolate to oblong-oval and crisped when dry, with a base tapering to a narrow insertion. The leaves lack teeth, have a short abrupt projection at the tip (apiculate), a strong, single unbranched vein and a distinct border of long narrow cells.
Widespread in New Zealand in moist, shaded sites on tree trunks, rotten logs and soil.
