Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas - Occurrence Profile

Bell Museum bryophytes (MIN:Bryophytes)

Catalog #: 635648

Occurrence ID: ed193ae6-4901-422d-bc64-9c64a463d83e

Secondary Catalog #: 1100504

Taxon: Barbula acuta (Brid.) Brid.

Family: Pottiaceae

Collector: C.F. Baker

Number: 33

Date: 1901-10-26

Locality: United States, California, Santa Clara, Stanford University

Habitat: Common in small mats on stones bordering flower-beds.

Description: Is a species of the group of B. Fallax, but differs from this by its shorter peristome, less twisted, and by its cellules smooth or very slightly papillose. B. spar-idens C. M. et Kindb. of the same group, appears to differ from our species by the distinctly papillose cellules, the inferior rectangular, hyaline. B. semitorta Sulliv. is distinguished by its leaf narrower at the base and with the border plane.

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Rights Holder: Bell Museum, University of Minnesota

Access Rights: Users are required to adhere to Bell Museum collections policy. Questions may be directed to the curator in charge.

Record ID: ed193ae6-4901-422d-bc64-9c64a463d83e

For additional information about this specimen, please contact: Timothy Whitfeld, collections manager (museum-herbarium@umn.edu)

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