Bazzania heterostipa (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 pale yellow-green to brownish; stems very slender, to 3 cm or more in length, with leaves to 1.5 mm broad, prostrate; the lateral branches occasional, diverging at a wide angle; ventral branches frequent, usually leafy. Leaves vittate, approximate to subimhricate, spreading, plane, the teeth and a little of the apical portion often deflexed, asymmetrically oblong-ovate, 0.7-0.9 mm long, mostly 0.35 mm broad at the base, narrowed a little to the transversely truncate, obscurely tridentate or entire apex; teeth one or two cells high, two to four cells broad at the base, the sinuses lunulate, the margins entire; leaf-cells quadrate to rectangular in outline, with uniformly thickened walls, the lumina rounded, the cuticle verruculose; cells of the apical portions averaging 16 X 16 µ, those of the vitta to 32 X 24 µ, the walls thin, the trigones conspicuous. Underleaves large, approximate to imbricate, hyaline in part, rectangular in outline, averaging 0.35-0.42 mm long, 0.28 mm wide, the apex undulate, 2-4-lobed or -toothed, the chlorophyllose cells restricted to a small, interior, basal area, the cells quadrate to rectangular in outline, with uniformly thickened walls. Sexual branches and sporophyte not seen. Fig. 55, a-d.
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Discussion
Mastigobryum heterostipum Stepliani, Spec. Hep. 3: 532. 1909. Bazzania stephani Fulford, Bazzania Cent. & S. Am. 162. f. 59. 1946. Non Mastigobryum stephani Jack in Stephani.
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Distribution
Habitat: Over rocks and soil, in mats or tufts or scattered among other bryophytes.
Brazil South America|