Syrrhopodon elongatus var. glaziovii (Hampe) W.D.Reese
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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.
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Family
Calymperaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Plants in deep, dense clumps, glaucous-green above, little branched, up to ca. 15 cm tall, often matted with purple rhizoids below and leaf bases and tips often bearing purple rhizoids. Leaves strongly flexed at the shoulders and often squarrose, 9-11 mm long; upper lamina as long as the lower, when dry crisped or spirally twisted, tapered evenly to an acute, spinose apex; cells highly bulging-pluripapillose, obscure, rounded-rectangular; lower lamina wider than the upper; costa smooth dorsally below, spinose above; margins strongly bordered all around and strongly ciliate at the shoulders (or cilia sometimes reduced to denticulations or nearly lacking), entire or toothed above the shoulders, and spinose toward the apex. Setae red, 1.5-2 cm long; capsules cylindric, 2-3 mm long; operculum 1.5 mm long; peristome teeth slender, papillose. Spores 12 µm, granular. Calyptrae 3-3.5 mm long.
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Discussion
Fig. 148f-h
S. elongatus Sull. var. glaziovii (Hampe) Reese, Bryologist 81:214.1978.
S. glaziovii Hampe, Vidensk. Meddel. Dansk Naturh. Foren. Kjøbenhavn m, 6: 133.1874.
The tall, unbranched stems, somewhat squarrose, ciliate leaves, and evenly tapered upper lamina about the same length as the lower make this variety distinctive. The typical variety occurs only in Cuba; it has leaves straight and twisted but not crisped when dry, with upper laminae twice as long as the lower.