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'''''Phaeoceros laevis''''', the '''smooth hornwort''',<ref name=BBS>{{cite book|last=Edwards|first=Sean R.|date=2012|title=English Names for British Bryophytes|journal=Special Volume - British Bryological Society|location=Wootton, Northampton|publisher=British Bryological Society|isbn=978-0-9561310-2-7|issn=0268-8034|series=British Bryological Society Special Volume|volume=5|edition=4}}</ref> is a species of ] of the genus '']''. It is commonly found in areas where moisture is plentiful, such as moist soils in fields, the banks of streams and rivers or inundated beneath the surface of the rivers.<ref name="Isaac">{{cite journal|url=http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/2/339.extract|author=Isaac, Ivor | year=1941 | title=The Structure of ''Anthoceros laevis'' in relation to its Water Supply | journal=Annals of Botany |series=New Series | volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=339–352 |doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a087397 | access-date=16 April 2011}}</ref> It grows to a maximum height of about 5 millimetres and the plants are ]; the sex organs are visible on the dorsal surface.<ref name="Isaac"/> '''''Phaeoceros laevis''''', the '''smooth hornwort''',<ref name=BBS>{{cite book|last=Edwards|first=Sean R.|date=2012|title=English Names for British Bryophytes|journal=Special Volume - British Bryological Society|location=Wootton, Northampton|publisher=British Bryological Society|isbn=978-0-9561310-2-7|issn=0268-8034|series=British Bryological Society Special Volume|volume=5|edition=4}}</ref> is a species of ] of the genus '']''. It is commonly found in areas where moisture is plentiful, such as moist soils in fields, the banks of streams and rivers or inundated beneath the surface of the rivers.<ref name="Isaac">{{cite journal|author=Isaac, Ivor | year=1941 | title=The Structure of ''Anthoceros laevis'' in relation to its Water Supply | journal=Annals of Botany |series=New Series | volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=339–352 |doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a087397 }}</ref> It grows to a maximum height of about 5 millimetres and the plants are ]; the sex organs are visible on the dorsal surface.<ref name="Isaac"/>


The ] is nearly flat on the upper surface. It is of dark green and somewhat lustrous color, devoid of intercellular spaces. Its capsule is commonly {{convert|6|inch}} to {{convert|18|inch}} in length. The base is surrounded by a cylindrical sheath that often flares at the mouth. Spores are yellow with a granular-papillose surface. The elaters are yellowish, often branches, and varying in size and form. The slender green capsules, when produced in large numbers, resemble grass tufts. Mature spores are necessary for species determination.<ref name="Britton1918">{{cite book|last=Britton|first=Nathaniel Lord|title=Flora of Bermuda|url=https://archive.org/details/floraofbermud00brit|access-date=22 April 2011|year=1918|publisher=C. Scribner's sons|pages=–}}</ref> The ] is nearly flat on the upper surface. It is of dark green and somewhat lustrous color, devoid of intercellular spaces. Its capsule is commonly {{convert|6|inch}} to {{convert|18|inch}} in length. The base is surrounded by a cylindrical sheath that often flares at the mouth. Spores are yellow with a granular-papillose surface. The elaters are yellowish, often branches, and varying in size and form. The slender green capsules, when produced in large numbers, resemble grass tufts. Mature spores are necessary for species determination.<ref name="Britton1918">{{cite book|last=Britton|first=Nathaniel Lord|title=Flora of Bermuda|url=https://archive.org/details/floraofbermud00brit|access-date=22 April 2011|year=1918|publisher=C. Scribner's sons|pages=–}}</ref>

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Species of hornwort

Phaeoceros laevis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Anthocerotophyta
Class: Anthocerotopsida
Order: Notothyladales
Family: Notothyladaceae
Genus: Phaeoceros
Species: P. laevis
Binomial name
Phaeoceros laevis
(L.) Prosk.
Synonyms

Anthoceros laevis L.

Phaeoceros laevis, the smooth hornwort, is a species of hornwort of the genus Phaeoceros. It is commonly found in areas where moisture is plentiful, such as moist soils in fields, the banks of streams and rivers or inundated beneath the surface of the rivers. It grows to a maximum height of about 5 millimetres and the plants are monoecious; the sex organs are visible on the dorsal surface.

The thallus is nearly flat on the upper surface. It is of dark green and somewhat lustrous color, devoid of intercellular spaces. Its capsule is commonly 6 inches (150 mm) to 18 inches (460 mm) in length. The base is surrounded by a cylindrical sheath that often flares at the mouth. Spores are yellow with a granular-papillose surface. The elaters are yellowish, often branches, and varying in size and form. The slender green capsules, when produced in large numbers, resemble grass tufts. Mature spores are necessary for species determination.

The cytology of P. laevis has been subject to considerable study. In 1909, Lotsy reported that the plant contained one chloroplast in each cell of the gametophyte and two in each cell of the sporophyte. The sporophyte is likened to an elongated spindle. Research conducted by Lorbeer in 1924 revealed that two plastids are present in a cell when it is undergoing cell division, of which according to McAllister may vary in size. The centrosomes of the species, much like Marchantia polymorpha, are composed of two centrioles apposed end-to end, which are connected by a continuation of their cartwheel structures.

Phaeoceros laevis (D). Illustration from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

References

  1. Edwards, Sean R. (2012). English Names for British Bryophytes. British Bryological Society Special Volume. Vol. 5 (4 ed.). Wootton, Northampton: British Bryological Society. ISBN 978-0-9561310-2-7. ISSN 0268-8034. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  2. ^ Isaac, Ivor (1941). "The Structure of Anthoceros laevis in relation to its Water Supply". Annals of Botany. New Series. 5 (2): 339–352. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a087397.
  3. Britton, Nathaniel Lord (1918). Flora of Bermuda. C. Scribner's sons. pp. 469–. Retrieved 22 April 2011.
  4. Balfour, Isaac Bayley; Thaxter, Roland; Blackman, Vernon Herbert (1948). Annals of Botany. Academic Press. p. 240. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
  5. ^ Lander, Caroline A. (January 1935). "The Relation of the Plastid to Nuclear Division in Anthoceros laevis". American Journal of Botany. 22 (1): 42–51. doi:10.1002/j.1537-2197.1935.tb05007.x. JSTOR 2436172.
  6. Moser, John W. & Kreitner, Gerald L. (February 1, 1970). "Centrosome Structure in Anthoceros Laevis and Marchantia Polymorphia" (PDF). Department of Botany, University of Illinois. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
  • Proskauer, Johannes (1951). "Studies on Anthocerotales. III. The genera Anthoceros and Phaeoceros". Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 78 (4): 331–349. doi:10.2307/2481996. JSTOR 2481996.
Taxon identifiers
Phaeoceros laevis
Anthoceros laevis
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