Papillaria nitens
(Hook.f. & Wilson) SainsburyAsexual propagules absent. Plants light green to light golden-green, golden when dry, often glossy. Pendent stems to 20 cm long, pinnately branched. Stem leaves erect-spreading when moist and dry, triangular to broadly lanceolate, 0.9–2.2 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, not or slightly plicate; bases broadly auriculate; apex long acuminate to flexuose hairpointed; costa extending to midleaf, often indistinct; margin serrulate, recurved at mid-leaf, without a border; laminal cells in apical half and midlaminal cells linear to linear-rhomboidal, 25–50 μm long, 2–6 μm wide, smooth near apex, becoming pluripapillose in midleaf; auricular cells elongated-elliptic to linear, with 1–4 papillae per cell, with long axis c. parallel to margin close to margin; laminal cells at base near costa rectangular, (8–) 12–30 μm long, 8–10 μm wide, with minute papillae. Branch leaves similar to stem leaves, 0.4–1.2 mm long, 0.35–0.65 mm wide. Setae 1.5–5.5 mm long. Capsule oblong, c. 1.3–1.5 mm long. Operculum to c. 0.7 mm long.
GipP, EGL, EGU, HSF, OtR. Recorded from rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest in the Otways and East Gippsland east from near Orbost. Also QLD, NSW and Tas. New Zealand and New Caledonia.
de Oliveira, J.R.P.M.; Quandt, D.; Newton, A.E.; Pôrto, K.C.; Luong, T.-T.; Huttunen, S. (2020). Systematic Revision of Papillaria (Meteoriaceae, Bryophyta). Systematic Botany 45(3): 411–438.
Streimann, H. (1992). Moss genus Papillaria (Meteoriaceae) in the Pacific. Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory 71: 83–111.
