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Brachytheciites sachalinensis
Brachytheciites sachalinensis Ignatov, Perkovsky Arctoa, 22: 80. 20 Dec 2013
- Name
- Brachytheciites sachalinensis
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Brachytheciites
- Authors (Pub.)
- Ignatov M. S.
Perkovsky E. E.
- Publication
- Mosses from Sakhalinian amber (Russian Far East) [2013/12]
- Journal
- Arctoa
- Volume
- 22
- Page number
- 80
- Year
- 2013
- Fossil Status
- leafy twigs
- Stratigraphy
- Priabonian
- Location
- on the beach of the Okhotsk Sea near Starodubskoe, close to the mouth of the Naiba River, Dolinsky District, Sakhalin region, Sakhalin Island, Russian Federation
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Far East)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Palaeontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
- Repository Number
- PIN 3387/165
- Diagnosis
- Stems >5 mm long, 50-85 μm wide, without paraphyllia and apparent branching, densely to loosely terete foliate. Rhizoids abundant on small-leaved stolon shoots. Leaves erect to spreading, 0.9-1.5 mm long, 0.3 mm wide, in stolons 0.4×0.1 mm, from ovate or ovate-lanceolate base gradually of moderately abruptly tapered to acumen, lanceolate in shorter leaves to filiform in larger leaves, slightly concave, channeled above being semilunar on cross section; not plicate; margin plane, not bordered, entire to indistinctly serrulate distally, costa distinct up to acumen in short acuminate leaves, disappearing in narrow part of acumen in long acuminate subpiliferous leaves; ca. 40 μm wide below. Laminal cells linear elongate, 4-10:1, 25-50×5-8 μm.
