Lopholejeunea sagraeana (Mont.) Schiffn.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Lejeuneaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Brownish or blackish green, more or less glossy, growing in depressed mats. Leaves imbricated, the dorsal lobe widely spreading, oblong-ovate, about 0.75 m. long,, rounded; apical tooth of lobule often indistinct; leaf-cells apparently uniformly thickened except for minute pits, averaging about 20 µ; underleaves subimbricated, reniform; inflorescence normally autoecious; perichaetial bracts larger than the leaves, the dorsal one suborbicular, coarsely toothed, the lobule in the form of a minute basal tooth; bracteole entire or nearly so; perianth oval to obovate in outline, the beak short and the wings deeply and closely laciniate.
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Distribution
On bark, Andros and New Providence : Florida ; widely distributed in tropical America ; also reported from Africa and the East Indies. Sagea's Lopholejeunea.
Andros Island Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America|