Frullania arietina T.Taylor
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Frullaniaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Bright green, yellowish green or brownish green, scattered or in loose tufts. Leaves imbricated, the dorsal lobe plane or nearly so, orbicular-ovate, about 1.2 mm. long; lobule inflated in the upper part only, the lower forming a subrhomboidal expansion; leaf-cells with conspicuous trigones, averaging about 30 µ underleaves orbicular, shortly bifid, entire or nearly so; inflorescence paroecious, the saccate male bracts in two or three pairs below the female inflorescence; the latter borne on a short branch; bracts in one to three pairs, the innermost with ovate, acute, sparingly toothed lobes and similar but narrower lobules; bracteoles highly connate, bifid with narrow, sharp divisions; perianth oblong with two distinct lateral keels and a broad two-angled ventral keel.
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Distribution
On twigs, Grantstown, New Providence : Florida ; widely distributed in tropical America. Ram's Head Frullania.
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