Hyophila tortula (Schwägr.) Hampe
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Pottiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Plants often growing on rocks in scattered, low cushions, usually sterile; stems short and simple; leaves inrolled and twisted when dry, up to 2 mm. long by 0.5 mm. broad, lanceolate; vein stout, brown, ending in the cuspidate apex, smooth or slightly rough on the back; basal cells smooth, oblong, upper cells in transverse rows, hexagonal, mamillose on the inner surface, smooth on the back; margins sometimes denticulate at apex. Dioicous. Only known sterile, in the Bahamas, propagating by brood-bodies borne on filaments from the axils of the upper leaves. [Pedicel 8-10 mm. long, erect; capsule 2 mm. long, cylindric; mouth bordered by smaller, darker cells; annulus compound, falling with the beaked lid; peristome none; calyptra eucullate and slightly twisted; spores smooth, small.]
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Distribution
New Providence and Abaco : Florida ; West Indies ; Mexico ; Guatemala and South America. Hyophila.
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