Groutiella obtusa (Mitt.) Florsch.
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Authority
Buck, William R. 2003. Guide to the plants of central french Guiana. Part 3. Mosses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76: 1-167.
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Family
Orthotrichaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Plants small to medium-sized, branches yellowish to dull green from a red-tomentose creeping stem, stems to 10 cm long, branches 4-7 mm long. Leaves somewhat contorted when dry, oblong, obtuse to retuse, very rugose in upper half, 1.1-1.6 x 0.3-0.4 mm; margins entire, undulate, plane; costa excurrent, mucro less than 30 µm long; cells rounded-hexagonal, 6-9 µm in diameter, mammillose, somewhat longer below; inner basal cells somewhat oblate, ca. 3 x 7 µm, mammillose, marginal basal cells elongate in 5-8 rows, extending 1/4-1/2 the leaf length. Setae ca. 6 mm long; capsules ca. 1.5 mm long, short-cylindric, isosporous; peristome rudimentary, extending ca. 30 µm above capsule mouth.
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Distribution
In non-flooded moist forests, uncommon, 200-500 m, on tree trunks and branches, especially in the canopy.
French Guiana South America|