Dicranella lindigiana (Hampe) Mitt.

  • Authority

    Sharp, Aaron J., et al. 1994. The Moss Flora of Mexico. Part One: Sphagnales to Bryales. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 69 (1): 1-452.

  • Family

    Dicranaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Dicranella lindigiana (Hampe) Mitt.

  • Description

    Species Description - Plants in low yellowish-green tufts 2-6 mm high. Leaves flexuose, up to I mm long, lanceolate, narrowly obtuse and minutely serrulate at the tip; margins recurved below; costa 50-60 µm wide below, about 1/5 the width of the leaf base, vanishing at or below the apex; cells thin-walled, rectangular, 5-7:1 below, subquadrate or short-rectangular above. Setae 4-6 mm long, yellow-brown; µm of capsule erect and symmetric, subglobose (the neck short and inconspicuous), smooth; annulus large; exothecial cells 1-2:1; peristome teeth up to 120 µm high, papillose, irregularly divided or perforate. Spores 16-22 µm, finely papillose.

  • Discussion

    Fig. 80d-f

    D. lindigiana«(Hampe) Mitt. J. Linn. Soc Bot 12: 30 1869.

    Seligeria lindigiana Hampe, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. V, 3.353. 1865.

    Microdus lindigianus(Hampe) Besch. ex?ar., Index Bryol. 804.1897.

    Dicranella sphaewcarpaCard., Rev. Bryol. 36:69.1909.

    Microdus sphaerocarpus (Card.) Broth, in E. & P., Nat. Pfl. ed. 2,10: 181. 1924.

    The subglobose capsules with short exothecial cells and papillose peristome teeth are distinctive. (The types of Dicranella sphaerocarpa and Seligeria lindigiana were found by Steven Churchill to be identical.)

  • Distribution

    On soil, especially banks of trails, at 1000-2100 m elev.; Chiapas, Hidalgo, Jalisco.—Mexico; Colombia; Puerto Rico; Florida.

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