Jaegerina scariosa (Lorentz) Arzeni
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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
Pterobryaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Plants medium-sized, in green to golden, mostly lax, epiphytic colonies; primary stems to ca. 4 cm long, secondary stems erect, to 2.5(4) cm long but mostly 1-1.5 cm long, mostly simple, laxly turgid-foliate, not complanate-foliate. Secondary stem leaves little altered when dry, wide-spreading to squarrose, lanceolate-ovate to broadly ovate, abruptly short-acuminate, concave, 1.1-1.8(2.3) x 0.8-1.2 mm; margins subentire or more often serrulate above, entire below, plane throughout or narrowly recurved near midleaf; costa variable on a single stem, slender, short and double or single and extending as high as 2/3 the leaf length; cells linear-flexuose, 30-40 x 4-6 µm, smooth, thick-walled and porose throughout, yellowed at the insertion; alar cells scarcely differentiated, with only a few subquadrate ones in extreme angles. Asexual propagula of gemmae 6-8-celled. Setae smooth or roughened below, 3-4 mm long; capsules 1-1.5 mm long; exostome teeth ± smooth, perforate. Calyptrae cucullate, naked, slightly roughened.
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Distribution
In non-flooded moist forests, uncommon, ca. 200 m, on tree trunks.
French Guiana South America|