Calymperes nicaraguense Renauld & Cardot
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Authority
Buck, William R. 2003. Guide to the plants of central french Guiana. Part 3. Mosses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76: 1-167.
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Family
Calymperaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Plants relatively small to medium-sized, to ca. 0.8 cm tall, olive to dark green, in lax to dense turfs. Leaves strongly homomallous when dry, subulate from a broad base with flaring shoulders, mostly 4-5 x 0.75-0.9 mm; margins thickened, ca. 3-5-stratose, finely toothed above, serrate at shoulders; costa short-excurrent; cells ± round, mostly 8 pm in diam., smooth or somewhat unipapillose abaxially, mammillose adaxially; teniolae variable, often weak and incomplete, 1-2(3) cells wide at shoulders, ending well below midleaf; cancellinae meeting costa in acute to broad angles, cells smooth. Asexual reproduction by gemmae; gemmiferous leaves not much differentiated; gemmae on adaxial side of short-excurrent costae. Setae 4-5 mm long; capsules 2-2.5 mm long.
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Distribution
In non- flooded moist forests, somewhat common, 200-500 m, on bases, trunks, and twigs of trees.
French Guiana South America|