Fissidens garberi Lesq. & James
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Fissidentaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Plants minute. Stems simple, seldom more than 2-3 mm. high, erect or decumbent; leaves 48 pairs, most numerous on the sterile plants, usually all unbordered, except the two uppermost leaves of the fruiting plants which are longer and narrower than the others; vein ending in the acute apex; margins minutely serrate, with acute or truncate teeth; cells dense, with 2-4 small papillae, basal cells larger, papillose only on the outer surface; perichaetial leaves bordered only at the base by an obscure border of 1-3 rows of cells. Dioicious. Pedicel terminal, erect, short, 1-2 mm.; capsule small, 0.6 to 1 mm. straight; lid beaked; teeth spirally thickened at apex; spores smooth.
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Distribution
On rotten wood and rocks in sink-holes, coppices on Farringdon Road, New Providence : Florida ; Louisiana ; West Indies and South America. Garbee's Fissidens.
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