Bazzania cubensis (Gottsche) Pagán
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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, olive-green tinged with brown; stems slender, to 6 cm long, with leaves to 3.5 mm broad, prostrate; lateral branches mostly 1 cm or more apart, diverging at a wide angle; flagelliform branches frequent, long. Leaves imbricate, spreading, deflexed when dry, asymmetrically ovate, 0.9-1.6 mm long, 0.6-0.7 mm broad at the base, narrowed a little to the mostly transversely truncate, tridentate apex; teeth acute, large to obscure, two to eight cells long and three to six cells broad at the base, the sinuses lunulate, the margins mostly slightly serrulate; leaf-cells thin-walled, becoming thickened, the lumina angular-rounded, the trigones small, conspicuous, the cuticle very strongly verruculose ; cells of the apical portion 22-25 X 25-30 µ. Underleaves quadrate, subimbricate, narrowly connate with one leaf, squarrose in the upper part, the lateral margins lobed and serrate, the apex incised, the teeth irregular, two to five cells broad at the base, two to four cells high, with entire to serrate margins. .Sexual branches and sporophytes not seen. Fig. 37, a-e.
Distribution and Ecology - Habitat: In depressed mats on logs and bases of trees in mountain woods.
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Discussion
Mastigobryum cubense Gottsche in Stephani, Hedwigia 24: 248. pl. 3. f. 1. 1885.