Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Lejeuneaceae
Lejeuneaceae
Description:
Species Description - Plants pale to bright green, scattered or growing in thin, depressed mats. Leaves subimbricated, the dorsal lobe widely spreading, ovate, about 0.7 mm. long, usually broad and rounded at the apex; lobule inflated, triangular-ovoid, involute, apex tipped with a single blunt cell; leaf-cells thin-walled and usually without trigones, averaging about 33 X 25 m in the middle of the lobe; underleaves distant, orbicular, plane, bifid about one third with rounded or obtuse lobes and a narrow sinus; inflorescence autoecious; female inflorescence borne on a more or less elongated branch with a single subfloral innovation; bracts shorter than the leaves, the lobule pointed; bracteole slightly connate, ovate to obovate; perianth obovoid, the keels rounded above, minutely crenulate.
Species Description - Plants pale to bright green, scattered or growing in thin, depressed mats. Leaves subimbricated, the dorsal lobe widely spreading, ovate, about 0.7 mm. long, usually broad and rounded at the apex; lobule inflated, triangular-ovoid, involute, apex tipped with a single blunt cell; leaf-cells thin-walled and usually without trigones, averaging about 33 X 25 m in the middle of the lobe; underleaves distant, orbicular, plane, bifid about one third with rounded or obtuse lobes and a narrow sinus; inflorescence autoecious; female inflorescence borne on a more or less elongated branch with a single subfloral innovation; bracts shorter than the leaves, the lobule pointed; bracteole slightly connate, ovate to obovate; perianth obovoid, the keels rounded above, minutely crenulate.
Distribution:
Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| Cat Island Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America|
Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| Cat Island Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America|