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NZ Plants
Trachyloma planifolium
Family: Trachylomataceae
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Pendant plants growing on a nikau trunk
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Plant consisting of a stipe (stalk) and terminal frond
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Stipe
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Portion of frond with branches
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Branch, upper surface with leaves
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Leaves
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Branch, lower surface
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Stem tips with brood bodies (gemmae)
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Detached, filamentous brood bodies
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Leaves removed to expose groups of brood bodies forming along the stem
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A group of brood bodies
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Sporophyte plants with stalks (setae) and terminal capsules
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Perichaetial bracts at base of seta
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Enlarging capsule, calyptra cover split to partially expose the capsule lid (operculum)
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Mature capsule, operculum shed to expose the outer and inner teeth of the peristome
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Trachyloma planifolium has a prostrate creeping primary stem that forms erect-to-pendant secondary branches (stipes). Each stipe terminates in a linear-to-triangular frond with pinnate branches (branches regularly arranged in one plane to either side of the frond axis). Leaves have a distinctive silvery-white sheen with age. Vegetative reproductive structures (brood bodies) are formed at the tips of branches that release filaments of cells.
Widespread in New Zealand in moist forest as an epiphyte.
