Barbula crugeri Sond.
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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 small, in dark brown patches on damp rocks. Stems slender, seldom more than 2 cm. high; leaves curled and twisted when dry, spreading when moist, about 1 mm. long; base oblong, with thin rectangular cells; apex keeled; upper cells minute, dense and papillose; vein stout at base, rough on the back and ending abruptly in the cuspidate apex; margins flat or revolute, entire or rarely denticulate at apex. It has only been found sterile in the Bahamas, but propagates by club-shaped brood-bodies borne in clusters, in the axils of the leaves. [Dioicous. Pedicels erect, about 1 cm. long, twisted when dry; capsules up to 1 mm., erect, eylindric; lid beaked; calyptra cucullate, rough at apex; peristome red, twisted; teeth slender, bifid and papillose, with a short basal membrane; annulus none; spores smooth, small, ripening in summer.]
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Distribution
On wet rocks in quarry at Nassau: Florida; Louisiana; Cuba; Jamaica; Puerto Rico to Trinidad and South America. Cruger's Barbula.
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