Lindbergia mexicana (Besch.) Cardot
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Authority
Sharp, Aaron J., et al. 1994. The Moss Flora of Mexico. Part Two: Orthotrichales to Polytrichales. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 69 (2)
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Family
Leskeaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Plants slender, dark-green. Branches slender, subjulaceous when dry, often curved. Leaves appressed when dry, wide-spreading when moist, up to about 1 mm long, ovate, acute to short-acuminate, entire; costa ending shortly below the apex; cells oval, thick-walled, indistinctly papillose, several rows at the basal angles subquadrate and wider than long. Setae about 8 mm long; capsules about 1.5-2 mm long. Spores about 20-24 µm.
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Discussion
Fig. 640a
L mexicana (Besch.) Card., Rev. Bryol. 37: 51. 1910.
Leskea mexicana Besch., Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 16- 233. 1872.
Haplohymenium densum Schimp. ex Besch., Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 16: 233. 1872.
Lindbergia mexicana var. acuminata Card., Rev. Bryol. 37: 51. 1910.
Lindbergia mexicana and L. ovata are included in Lindbergia because of a reduced inner peristome and leaves widely spreading when moist. They differ from the genus in a strict sense, as in Lindbergia brachyptera, in having leaves with less distinctly papillose cells. Lindbergia mexicana has leaves wide-spreading but not squarrose. The leaf tips are quite variable in degree of acumination. The var. acuminata is no more than an extreme with relatively narrow leaves with rather longer acumina than usual. The longer costa makes the species easy to distinguish from L. ovata.
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Distribution
On bark oftrees and shrubs, also on stumps, logs, and rocks at altitudes of 1100-3380 m; Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Distrito Federal, Hidalgo, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nuevo Leon, Puebla, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz.—Mexico; Guatemala; Texas and New Mexico.
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