Microlejeunea laetevirens (Nees & Mont.) A.Evans
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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 green, scattered or growing in depressed mats. Leaves distant to subimbrieated, the dorsal lobe obliquely spreading, ovate, about 0.25 mm. long, rounded to obtuse at the apex; lobule inflated, about half as long as the lobe, ovate, involute, apex tipped with a single, almost straight, blunt cell; leaf cells averaging about 20 µ in the middle of the lobe, thin-walled throughout or with minute trigones; underleaves distant, ovate, bifid about one half with acute or acuminate divisions and a narrow sinus, often unidentate on one or both sides; inflorescence dioecious; female inflorescence borne on a short branch, with one or two subfloral innovations; bracts a little larger than the leaves, the lobule rounded to acuminate; braeteole free, ovate; perianth pyriform, the keels smooth.