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NZ Plants
Achrophyllum dentatum
Family Daltoniaceae
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Plants
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Mature shoot with leaves
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Leaf with forking nerve (vein)
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Leaves with finely toothed margins
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Leaf with smooth margins
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Young shoots and young spore-producing plant (sporophyte)
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Leaf margins with brood bodies
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Brood bodies
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Detail of leaf margin with brood bodies
Bill and Nancy Malcolm
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Young sporophyte plant
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Young sporophyte with seta (stalk) and terminal calyptra covering
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Calyptra covering
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Achrophyllum dentatum is a shade-loving terrestrial moss with a creeping stem bearing rounded, somewhat fleshy leaves flattened in one plane.
Found throughout New Zealand in damp shaded forest; sometimes aquatic.
See Find by Genus page for mosses in the same family: Calyptrochaeta, Distichophyllum.
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