Crossomitrium patrisiae (Brid.) Müll.Hal.
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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
Pilotrichaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Plants medium-sized, in lustrous, loosely adnate, bright green to golden brown, often dense mats; stems to 8 cm long, little-branched, the young branches sometimes ± dimorphic. Leaves ± contorted when dry, often falcate, ± straight when dry, lateral leaves wide- spreading to squarrose, oblong-lanceolate to broadly oblong-ovate, widest below midleaf, asymmetric, 0.85-2.1 x 0.2-0.8 mm; margins serrulate almost to base, sometimes bifid, usually single and bifid on a single leaf, with occasional papillae above or not, plane; costa none; cells long-rhomboidal to linear, 50-160 x 8.5-14 µm, usually not shorter in the apex, broader and thicker-walled toward the insertion, concolorous. Asexual propagula common in pads on bases of leaves, especially lateral leaves, and on rhizoids, uniseriate, simple or stellate-branched, brown when mature, smooth or lightly roughened. Setae roughened above, smooth below, reddish, 6-12 mm long, curved; capsules suberect to pendent, short-cylindric, 0.5-1.75 mm long.
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Distribution
In non-flooded moist forests, common, ca. 200 m, on leaves of vascular plants and to a lesser extent on twigs.
French Guiana South America|