Pilosium chlorophyllum (Hornsch.) 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
Plagiotheciaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Plants yellowish green; stems to 6 cm long. Dorsal leaves erect, oblong-ovate, 1.3-1.6 x 0.6-0.9 mm, symmetric, lateral leaves wide- spreading, oblong-lanceolate, cultriform, obtuse to short-acute, 1.5-2 x 0.6-1 mm; costa single in lateral leaves, very short to ca. 1/3 the leaf length, absent in dorsal leaves; cells 89-146 x 7-12 µm, becoming conspicuously porose toward the insertion; alar cells strongly differentiated in lateral leaves, numerous, oblong, 24-89 x 14-28 µm, often colored, ± inflated, porose, extending across adaxial surface of costa dorsal leaves with few differentiated cells, 12-24 x 9-12 µm quadrate to subquadrate. Setae 1.5-1.8 cm long; capsules 0.8-1.2 mm long.
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Distribution
In non-flooded moist forests, somewhat common, 200-450 m on rotten wood or less often on soil or rock.
French Guiana South America|