Stereophyllum radiculosum (Hook.) Mitt.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Stereophyllaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Plants in flat bright green mats. Stems matted together by numerous radicles; branches and branchlets with flattened glossy leaves, imbricate and secund when dry, spreading when moist, up to 1.75 mm. long by 0.75 mm. broad, concave with flat serrate margins; vein stout, tapering and ending above the middle of the leaf; apex acute; upper cells rhomboidal; alar cells rectangular anl oblique, only reaching the vein and more numerous on one side of the base; basal radiating and longer, all minutely and distinctly papillose on the back; perichaetial leaves smaller, erect, clasping, more suddenly acuminate. Autoieous; pedicel up to 1 cm. long; calyptra small, entire; capsule horizontal, slightly unequal, 1.5-2 mm. long, its walls with swollen cells; lid large and pale, conic, short-beaked; annulus none, mouth with a dark rim; peristome double, the teeth yellow, paler and papillose at apex, inner with white, perforate keeled segments and shorter slender cilia; spores small and smooth, ripe in winter.
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Distribution
On logs and rotten wood, in coppices, New Providence, Abaco, Great Bahama and Lignum Vitae Cay : Florida ; New Mexico ; Texas ; Cuba ; South America.
New Providence Bahamas South America| Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| New Mexico United States of America North America| Texas United States of America North America| Cuba South America| South America|