Bazzania phyllobola Spruce

  • Authority

    Fulford, Margaret H. 1963. Manual of the leafy Hepaticae of Latin America--Part I. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 11: 1-172.

  • Family

    Lepidoziaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Bazzania phyllobola Spruce

  • Description

    Species Description - Plants slender, brownish-green becoming deep reddish-brown; stems to 6 cm long with leaves to 3 mm broad, depressed to ascending; lateral branches frequent, mostly 5 mm apart, diverging at a wide angle; flagelliform branches frequent long. Leaves approximate to subimbricate, deflexed when dry, asymmetric, elongate-ovate, ascendent, 0.75-1.5 mm long, 0.5 mm broad at the base, narrowed a little to the transversely truncate, bidentate apex; teeth large, acute, six to eight cells long, five to seven cells broad, margins crenulate, serrate, or even shortly denticulate; leaf-cells thin-walled, the lumina rounded, the trigones small, conspicuous, rarely coalesced, the cuticle verruculose; cells of the apical region mostly 20 X 20µ; a vitta not conspicuous. Underleaves distant to approximate, more or less quadrate in outline, mostly 0.26 0.32 mm long and broad, the apex irregularly divided into irregular, long or short, blunt to acute teeth, the lateral margins entire or variously toothed. Female branches frequent, the bracts of the intermediate and innermost series ovate, to one-half or more divided into two or three long, slender laciniae one or two cells broad and twelve or more cells long, the lateral margins serrate to ciliate. Perianth-mouth densely long-ciliate. Male bracts and sporophytes not seen. Fig. 2, a-e.

  • Discussion

    Bazzania bidens var. dissodonta Spruce, Trans. Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 15: 371. 1885. Bazzania dissodonta Spruce ms. Mastigobryum dissodontum Stephani, Trans. Linn. Soc. II. Bot. 6: 98. 1901. Mastigobryum phyllobolum Stephani, Spec. Hep. 3: 439. 1908. Mastigobryum heterophyllum Stephani, Spec. Hep. 6: 466. 1924.

  • Distribution

    Habitat: In mountain forests, on bases and trunks of trees. COLOMBIA: Rio Apaporis, Baudal Yapacopí, Schultes, Cabrera & Bell 15438 p.p. (FH); Dep. del Valle, Cordillera Occid., Cuatrecasas 22082-B (US).

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