Bazzania placophylla (Taylor) Grolle
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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 large, in deep olive-green to yellow-brown tufts; stems large to 10 cm or more long, with leaves to 3 mm broad; lateral branches scarce, diverging at an acute angle; flagelliform branches not seen. Leaves approximate to slightly imbricate, spreading, the sides nearly parallel, rounded at the broad apex, averaging 1.5 mm long, 0.95 mm wide, the margins entire, the dorsal margin arched from a cordate base and hook-form insertion, extending across the stem and beyond, the ventral base only a little dilated, the small auricle undulate; cells appearing in rows in the upper part of the leaf, averaging 18 µ, thin-walled, the trigones large with convex sides, coalesced or separated by thin-walled pits, the lumina angular-rounded to stellate, the cuticle roughly verruculose. Underleaves approximate to imbricate, very large, round-quadrate to longer than broad, averaging 1.1 mm across, the base straight to the line of insertion or rounded or slightly cordate-auriculate, the lobed margin entire, the cells as in the leaf. Sexual branches, and sporophytes not seen. Fig. 50, a-e.
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Discussion
Jungermannia placophylla T. Taylor, London Jour. Dot. 5: 276. 1S-46.
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Distribution
Habitat: “Mountain slopes on the east side of the Cordilleras of Peru.”
Ecuador South America| Peru South America|