Bazzania armatistipula (Steph.) Fulford
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Authority
Fulford, Margaret H. 1963. Manual of the leafy Hepaticae of Latin America--Part I. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 11: 1-172.
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Family
Lepidoziaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Plants of medium size, light green to olive-green, becoming pigmented with brown; stems slender, to 5 cm long, with leaves to 3 mm broad, prostrate; lateral branches 5 mm or more apart, diverging at a wide angle; flagelliform branches frequent, long. Leaves approximate to imbricate, spreading, plane or nearly so, asymmetrically ovate, mostly 1.4 mm long, 0.65 mm wide at the base, narrowing a little to the transversely truncate, serrate, tridentate apex; teeth two to five cells long, one to five cells broad at the base, the sinuses lunulate, the margins coarsely serrate; leaf-cells with thickened walls and small trigones, the lumina rounded, the cuticle verruculose; the cells of the apical region averaging 25 X 25 µ. Underleaves approximate to imbricate, connate by a few cells with one leaf, scarcely broader than the stem, subquaclrate, mostly 0.56 mm long, 0.560.64 mm broad, with a hyaline border of one to five cells across the top, the lateral margins dentate to serrate, the apical margins incised, with three to six spinose-dentate teeth or lobes, the cells of the hyaline border averaging 18 X 12 µ, the chlorophyllose cells averaging 20 µ, with conspicuous trigones. Sexual branches and sporophyte not seen. Fig. 36, a-e.
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Discussion
Mastigobryum armatistipulum Stephani, Spec. Hep. 3: 490. 1908.
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Distribution
Habitat: In depressed mats over logs and on tree bases in mountain woods.
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