Lepidozia chordulifera Taylor

  • Authority

    Fulford, Margaret H. 1966. Manual of the leafy Hepaticae of Latin America--Part II. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 11: 173-276.

  • Family

    Lepidoziaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Lepidozia chordulifera Taylor

  • Description

    Species Description - Plants of small to medium size, pale green becoming light brownish-green, in loose mats or tufts; stems to 5 cm long, with leaves 0.5-0.8 mm broad, pinnate to bipinnate, the lateral branches to 5 mm long, rarely becoming flagelliform, often curved downward at the tip and then to 10 mm long; ventral branches not seen. Line of leaf insertion oblique. Stem leaves distant to imbricate, asymmetric, ovate-truncate, to 0.4 mm long, 0.3-0.4 mm wide at the base, the dorsal margins strongly convex from a cordate base, with one or two conspicuous teeth or sometimes entire, the ventral margins entire or toothed, quadrifid to onehalf of their length; segments unequal, triangular from a 4- to 10-celIed base, the apex a row of two or three cells; leaf-cells of the base of the segment mostly 10-18 × 18 µ, the walls thickened, the cuticle faintly papillose. Underleaves as broad or broader than the stem, quadrifid to the middle, the segments slender from a 4- to 6-celled base, the tip of two or more cells, the margins of the lamina with usually one sharp tooth on each side. Male inflorescence intercalary on a branch [only one seen], the bracts and bracteoles in four series. Female inflorescence and sporophytes not seen. Pl. 44. Fig. 26, a-c.

  • Discussion

    Mastigophora chordulifera (Taylor) Trevisan, Mem. Ist. Lomb. III. 4: 416. 1877.

    Lepidozia hastata Stephani, Spec. Hep. 3: 605. 1909; Icon. Hep., Lepidozia No. 56.

    Lepidozia effusa Stephani, Sv. Vet.-akad. Handl. 469; 62. f. 23, g-h. 1911.

    Lepidozia fernandesiensis Stephani, Sv. Vet.-akad. Handl. 46": 63. f. 24. e. 1911. [In error, the description and figures have been interchanged with those of L. disticha p. 62, f. 24, a-b.]

    Lepidozia hariotii Stephani, Spec. Hep. 6: 329. 1922; Icon. Hep., Lepidozia No. 155.

    Lepidozia microscopica Stephani, Spec. Hep. 6: 334. 1922; Icon. Hep Lepidozia No. 160/161.

    Lepidozia angulata, Stephani ms. Nomen nudum.

    Lepidozia (Telaranea) fernandeziensis Herzog, Revue Bryol. Lichenol. 23: 51. 1954.

  • Distribution

    Habitat: On logs, tree bases and soil in forests, and on compact mounds in bogs.

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