Taxithelium pluripunctatum (Renauld & Cardot) W.R.Buck
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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
Sematophyllaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Plants medium-sized, in somewhat lustrous, wiry, golden, lax, extensive mats; stems to ca. 10 cm long, freely but irregularly branched, not or scarcely complanate-foliate. Stem and branch leaves somewhat differentiated, the stem leaves somewhat longer, longer acuminate, and less papillose than the branch leaves, the branch leaves laxly disposed, wide-spreading, lanceolate-ovate to ovate, acuminate, somewhat concave, 0.75-1.1 x 0.2-0.35 mm; margins subentire to distantly serrulate to base, plane; costa short and double or absent; cells linear, 55-100 x 5-7 µm, seriately pluripapillose with 2-5 papillae over each lumen at back, the papillae small and blunt, ± firm-walled, obscurely porose, becoming smooth in the acumen, becoming oblong, smooth, thick-walled, and porose in a single row across the insertion; alar cells not differentiated or with 1-2 oblong cells at the margins. Autoicous. Setae 0.7-1.3 cm long, slightly curved at base of urn; capsules ca. 0.8 mm long, with a slightly differentiated neck.
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Distribution
In non-flooded moist forests and montane forests, uncommon, 200-700 m, on rotten wood and bases of treelets, on Pic Matecho the species is fairly frequent as a twig epiphyte.
French Guiana South America|