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NZ Plants

Weymouthia cochlearifolia

Family: Lembophyllaceae

  • Plants attached to trunk of mahoe (Melicytus ramiflorus)

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  • Plants

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  • Shoot tips may be dawn out into fine threads which may break off and act as brood bodies.

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  • Detail of shoot tip

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  • The larger leaves are spreading, overlapping and concave

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  • Leaf

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  • Emerging sporophyte plant

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  • Mature sporophyte plants with stalks (setae) and capsules

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  • Perichaetial bracts at base of seta

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  • Mature capsule with peristome teeth

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  • Outer and inner peristome teeth

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Weymouthia cochlearifolia is a robust moss with slender pendulous stems that are 2-4 mm in diameter and up to 25 cm in length with short branches at right angles. The silvery-green leaves are broadly ovate, scarcely longer than wide, smooth and concave, and with or without a vein (nerve). Capsules are rarely found.

Widespread in New Zealand in rainforest as an epiphyte on tree trunks and on branches.


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