Polevova, S.V. Sporoderm ultrastructure
of Oedipodium griffithianum (Oedipodiopsida,
Bryophyta)
Arctoa (2015) 24: 419-430
doi: 10.15298/arctoa.24.34
Spores
of Oedipodium griffithianum
are studied under SEM and TEM, revealing a unique
combination of characters: distinct trilete laesura, distal surface densely covered by club-shaped
papillae often fused by their distal parts, perine
mostly eroded and fallen off in the mature spores, and layer between exine and intine strongly
variable in size and texture between distal and proximal hemisphere. This layer
is homogeneous or occasionally totally absent at distal pole, lamellose in
equatorial region in sections of fully developed spores, while indistinctly
lamellose to homogeneous in a slightly premature spores; in the proximal
hemisphere and in laesura it is thick and has complex
structure. In somewhat premature spores an electron dense perine
is observed upon exine, but it seems to easily fall
off during spore maturation, so fully mature spores almost lack perine like in Bruchia brevifolia. Oedipodium
is similar to Sphagnopsida in distinct laesura, unstable perine and
complex multilaminate innermost layer of exine, a remnant of tripartite lamella.