Pilotrichum bipinnatum (Schwägr.) Brid.
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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, yellowish green to golden brown, often small patches; primary branches erect, 3.5-12 cm long, usually 5-8 cm long, irregularly bipinnate from regularly pinnate branches. Secondary branch leaves fairly crowded, erect to erect-spreading when dry, erect-spreading when moist, scarcely altered, ovate to obovate, gradually to abruptly acute to short- acuminate, concave, slenderly short-decurrent, 0.6-1.2 x 0.7-1 mm; margins serrulate above, subentire below, plane throughout or irregularly narrowly recurved; costa mostly unequal, ± parallel in upper half, usually ending ca. 3/4 the leaf length, sometimes longer, not crested or with a low crest to 2 cells high; cells long-oblong, 14-17(28) x 2-4 µm, smooth to prorulose, thick-walled with the cell walls often wider than the lumina, scarcely porose, apical cells often longer, becoming rectangular, porose, and colored toward the insertion and decurrencies. Asexual propagula not produced. Synoicous. Setae 1-1.3 mm long, usually curved; capsules exserted, ca. 1-2 mm long. Calyptrae naked or sometimes sparsely hairy.
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Distribution
In non-flooded moist forests, common, 200-300 m, on twigs and branches and tree trunks.
French Guiana South America|