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NZ Plants
Leptostomum macrocarpum - pincushion moss
Family: Leptostomataceae
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Plants
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Leaves with long hairpoints
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Branching hairpoints
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Branching hairpoints
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Sectional view of a dry cushion of plants with a tomentum of interlocking rhizoids
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Dry stem
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Dry stem
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Sporophyte plants
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Developing capsule with operculum lid
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Leptostomum macrocarpum, is a mat or cushion-forming moss with closely-spaced stems that develop a tomentum. It differs from Leptostomum inclinans in that the hair point is branched (branching is especially well-developed in the specimen illustrated) and the capsules are erect and held on somewhat shorter setae.
Found throughout New Zealand in moist forest.
