Syrrhopodon prolifer var. scaber (Müll.Hal.) W.D.Reese
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Authority
Reese, William D. 1993. Calymperaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 58: 1-102. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Calymperaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Basionym: Syrrhopodon scaber Mitten, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 12: 119. 1869. Type. Cuba. Wright 46 (holotype, NY; isotypes, H-BR, L, S).
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Synonyms
Syrrhopodon papillosus Müll.Hal., Syrrhopodon flavescens Müll.Hal., Syrrhopodon schwaneckeanus Müll.Hal., Syrrhopodon cryptodus Mitt., Syrrhopodon calymperidianus Besch., Syrrhopodon schwaneckeanus f. major Besch., Syrrhopodon subviridis Besch., Syrrhopodon scaber var. breviligulatus Müll.Hal., Syrrhopodon dussii Broth., Syrrhopodon macrophyllus Broth., Syrrhopodon submacrophyllus Broth., Syrrhopodon longifolius Lindb.
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Description
Variety Description - Variety scaber is commonly yellowish-green and often grows in low grass-like tufts; its leaves are linear and not or only slightly contorted when dry. Its median leaf cells are distinct and highly bulging-papillose dorsally and ventrally. Illustrations. Crum and Anderson (1981, Fig. Ill); Reese (1978,Fig. 4-6).
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Discussion
The variety scaber is a weedy moss in much of its range. Its generally straight leaves when dry and distinctive highly bulging-pluripapillose leaf cells distinguish it from var. prolifer. Like the var. prolifer, it grades into var. tenuifolius. See Orbán and Reese (1990) for a review of the S. prolifer complex. In my revision of the limbate taxa of Syrrhopodon (1978), I incorrectly designated this taxon as var. papillosus (C. Mull.) Reese, overlooking an already availablename at the varietal level, created autonymically when Müller described S. scaber var. breviligulatus, as pointed out to me by William R. Buck (1991, pers. comm.).
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Distribution
Widespread and weedy throughout tropical and subtropical America, from the southeastern U.S. to southern Brazil. On tree trunks and bases, stumps, logs, humus, and soil in forests from sea level to about 2000 m.
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