Lejeunea glaucescens Gottsche
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Lejeuneaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Plants pale to bright green, scattered or growing in thin, depressed mats. Leaves subimbricated, the dorsal lobe widely spreading, ovate, about 0.7 mm. long, usually broad and rounded at the apex; lobule inflated, triangular-ovoid, involute, apex tipped with a single blunt cell; leaf-cells thin-walled and usually without trigones, averaging about 33 X 25 m in the middle of the lobe; underleaves distant, orbicular, plane, bifid about one third with rounded or obtuse lobes and a narrow sinus; inflorescence autoecious; female inflorescence borne on a more or less elongated branch with a single subfloral innovation; bracts shorter than the leaves, the lobule pointed; bracteole slightly connate, ovate to obovate; perianth obovoid, the keels rounded above, minutely crenulate.
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Distribution
On bark, Great Bahama and Cat Island : Florida : tropical America ; range not definitely known. The Bahamian specimens are not very well developed but seem to be referable to this species. Grayish Lejeunea.
Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| Cat Island Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America|