Tortella Moss

Description

Tortella inclinata forms dense, slightly decaying, yellow-green lawn, in the lower part brownish and weak rhizoid-felted lawns. The dense and evenly leaved and slightly branched shoots become up to about 2 centimeters high. The leaves are lanceolate to linear-lanceolate and have a dull, hood-shaped blade tip with a briefly emerging leaf rib. In the moist state, they are upright upright, protruding, dry, curled and twisted. The otherwise flat blade edges are indentered against the blade tip and are crenulated. The laminar cells of the leaf base are rectangular, hyaline , smooth, and sharply delineated against the round, green, and strongly papillous cells in the upper part of the leaf. The upper side of the leaf rib has long, narrow and smooth cells. The stems do not have a central strand. The moss is diocese . The ellipsoidal to cylindrical, mostly inclined and weakly curved sporic capsule has thread-like, spiral-wound peristomial teeth . Sporophytes are rarely developed.