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NZ Plants
Pendulothecium punctatum
Family: Neckeraceae
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Plant
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Branching shoot
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Growing stems with densely overlapping leaves
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Older shoots with spreading leaves
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Stem with spreading leaves
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Detached leaf showing the vein (nerve)
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Young sporophyte plant
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Immature capsule with calyptra cover
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Immature capsule, calyptra removed to expose the operculum lid
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Mature sporophyte plant
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Perichaetial bracts at base of sporophyte stalk (seta)
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Mature capsule
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Peristome teeth
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Peristome teeth
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Pendulothecium punctatum has distinctive dark-green, branching shoots with leaves flattened left and right along the branches and is easily mistaken for a liverwort. However, the presence of a faint vein (nerve) that terminates about mid leaf identifies it as a moss.
Widespread in New Zealand in moist areas.
