Leucodon curvirostris Hampe

  • Authority

    Sharp, Aaron J., et al. 1994. The Moss Flora of Mexico. Part Two: Orthotrichales to Polytrichales. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 69 (2)

  • Family

    Leucodontaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Leucodon curvirostris Hampe

  • Description

    Species Description - Plants moderately robust, yellow-green above, yellow-brown to brown below. Secondary stems up to 10 cm high, sometimes forked, curved-ascending. Leaves erect or ± spreading, often secund, 2.5-3.5 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, ± plicate; margins plane or ± recurved, serrulate above; upper cells linear-rhomboidal, thick-walled. Perichaetial leaves often reaching the base ofthe capsule or sometimes the middle ofthe urn. Setae 3-5, rarely 13 mm long; capsules exserted, ovoid, 2.5-3.5 mm long; operculum obliquely subulate; peristome teeth up to 3 50 µm long, faintly papillose; endostome rudimentary. Spores 23-35 µm and unicellular and also 45-85(-120) µm and multicellular, smooth or faintly papillose.

  • Discussion

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    L. curvirostrisHampe, Icones Muse. 16. 1844.

    Astrodontiumtenue Schimp. exBesch., Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 16:218. 1872.

    A. curvirostris (Hampe) Schimp. ex Besch., Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 16: 218. 1872.

    Leucodon curvirostris var. antitrichoides Card., Rev. Bryol. 37: 6. 1910.

    L. macrosporus Williams, Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 16: 23. 1912.

  • Distribution

    On trees, logs, and rarely rocks, at 1900-3100 m alt.; Chiapas, Distrito Federal, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Veracruz.—Mexico; Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Panama.

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