Prionodon fuscolutescens 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

    Prionodontaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Prionodon fuscolutescens Hampe

  • Description

    Species Description - Secondary stems 8-25 cm long, simple or with 1-2 branches arising near the base, often glossy, yellow to brownish-yellow (or less frequently ferruginous or green). Leaves wide-spreading when dry, or imbricate below and spreading toward the tips of stems or branches, wide-spreading to subsquarrose when moist, fragile (the tips frequently missing), 7-9 mm long, gradually lanceolate from an ovate, plicate base, ± auriculate; cells elongate and porose throughout, up to 70 µm long and 6-9 µm wide; alar cells 4-6:1, with sinuose-porose lateral walls. Setae 2-3 mm long; capsules ovoid, 2-3 mm long.

  • Discussion

    Fig. 519

    P. fuscolutescens Hampe, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. V, 4: 357. 1865.

    P. divaricatus Mitt., J. Linn. Soc, Bot. 12: 420. 1869.

    P.filifolius Herz., Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 26(2): 77. 1910.

    P. fragilifolius Broth., Bot. Jahrb. 56: 17. 1920.

    Not yet found in Mexico, this species is distinct because all the leaf cells (including the alar) are elongate.

  • Distribution

    On trees, rocks, and soil in mountain forests.—Guatemala to Bolivia

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