Bazzania longa (Nees) Trevis.

  • Authority

    Fulford, Margaret H. 1963. Manual of the leafy Hepaticae of Latin America--Part I. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 11: 1-172.

  • Family

    Lepidoziaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Bazzania longa (Nees) Trevis.

  • Description

    Species Description - Plants of medium size to robust, dark green, becoming deep red-brown; stems stout, to 10 cm long, with leaves to 5.5 mm broad, prostrate or ascending to erect; lateral branches distant, diverging at a wide angle; flagelliform branches frequent, long. Line of leaf insertion curved in its upper half. Leaves imbricate, slightly to strongly falcate, deflexed, often becoming connivent when dry, asymmetrically ovate, often elongate, 1.5-2.5 mm long, to 1.5 mm broad at the base, narrowing to the obliquely truncate, tridentate apex; teeth mostly large, unequal, the acroscopic tooth longer than the others, four to eight cells long, three to five cells wide at the base, the margins straight to repand; leaf-cells thin-walled, the cell cavities stellate, the trigones very large, with strongly convex sides, soon becoming coalesced, the cuticle verruculose; cells of the apical portion 24-34 X 24 µ. Underleaves distant to imbricate, round-quadrate to elongate, 0.45-1.2 mm long, 0.45-0.8 mm broad, the apex rounded, entire, to faintly 2-4-lobed. Female branches occasional, the bracts and bracteoles of the innermost series to 1.25 mm long, ovate, divided to one-seventh of their length into three short, crenate segments, the cells to 48 µ long, 18 µ wide, thick-walled, the lateral margins crenate to short spinose. Perianth long, the mouth short-spinose, the cells thick-walled. Male branches and sporophyte not seen. Fig. 25, a-h.

  • Discussion

    Jungermannia longa C. G. Nees, Linnaea 6: 623. 1831. Jungcrmannia stolonifera Sieber, Pl. Crypt. Exsicc. no. 35, Linnaea 6: 623. 1831. Non J. stolonifera Swartz. Mastigobryum longum C. G. Nees in G. L. & N. Syn. Hep. 231. 1845. Mastigobryum gottsclieanum Lindenberg in G. L. & N. Syn. Hep. 224. 1845. Bazzania gottscheana Trevisan, Mem. 1st. Lomb. 13: 414. 1877. Mastigobryum speciosum Gottsche, Husnot, Pl. Antilles no. 213. 1868; Husnot, Rev. Bryol. 2: 3. 1875 (nomen nudum) ; Gottsche in Stepliani, Hedwigia 25: 233. pl. 1. f. 1-3. 1886. Mastigobryum subfalcatum Gottsche in Stepliani, Hedwigia 25: 234. pl. 1. f. 4-6. 1886. Bazzania subfalcata Spruce, Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 30: 356. 1895. Mastigobryum tenue Stephani, Spec. Hep. 3: 448. 1908. Mastigobryum trinitatis Stephani, Spec. Hep. 6: 483. 1924.

  • Distribution

    Habitat: On rocks, logs and over tree bases.

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