Penicillus pyriformis A.Gepp & E.Gepp

• Region

  West Indies

• Country

  Bahamas

• Locality

  at the eastern end of Mariguana Island, in a shallow bay

• Coordinates

  22.3514, -72.827

• Coordinate Uncertainty (m)

  12871.6

• Georeferencing Method

  Georeferencing Quick Reference Guide, Version 2012. Located coordinates of geogr. center of Eastern Mayaguana (=Mariguana). Measured from selected coord. to farthest extent of the E side of island to find linear extent (12860 m). Input information into MaNIS Georef. Calc. to find uncert. radius (Area).

• Geodetic Datum

  WGS84

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

Phycotheca Boreali-Americana. Collins, Holden, and Setchell.
mi i. reiNunub (jyniurmis a. & e. s. Gepp.
A. & E. S. Gepp, Jour. Bot., Vol. XLIII, p. 2, Pl. COCCLXYIII,
fig. 1, 1905.
In a shallow bay with P. capitatus Lamarck and P. Lamour-
ouxii Decaisne, at the eastern end of Mariguana Island, Bahamas,
Dec, 1‘2, 1907.
New York Botanical Garden Expedition to the Bahamas,
collected by Marshall A. Howe.
This is perhaps the most common of the species of Penicillus
in the Bahama Islands, where it seems always very distinct from
P. capitatus and P. Lamourouxii, with which it often grows asso-
ciated. In southern Florida and Cuba it sometimes imitates P.
capitatus, but remains distinguishable by the character of the ulti-
mate branchlets of the corticating filaments of the stipe, which
are elongate and taper-pointed instead of being short-oblong,
truncate, or capitate.
M. A. H.
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