Calypogeia parallelogramma (Spruce) Steph.

  • Authority

    Fulford, Margaret H. 1968. Manual of the leafy Hepaticae of Latin America--Part III. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 11: 277-392.

  • Family

    Calypogeiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Calypogeia parallelogramma (Spruce) Steph.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Plants of medium to large size, dark green becoming dark brown to blackish, in depressed mats; stems to 5 cm long, with leaves, to 2 mm wide, irregularly pinnate; branches solitary, ventral-intercalary in the axils of the underleaves, leafy or rarely flagelliform or short sexual. Rhizoids occasional, tinged with brown, long, the tips branched, in tufts from small cells of the lower part of the underleaf. Line of leaf insertion oblique. Leaves approximate to subimbricate, more or less bordered by a row of smaller cells, widely spreading, plane, subrectangular, 0.9 X 0.48 mm, the apex broad-rounded or rarely retuse, the dorsal base curved, the ventral base decurrent, the leaf margin entire, undulate and with a suggestion of blunt teeth, especially along the dorsal margin; cells of the border quadrate or wider than long, often conspicuous on the upper margin, variable, 15-25 µ high, 20-30 µ wide, the walls uniformly thickened; cells of the apical region mostly 25-39 X 25-30 µ, the walls thin, the trigones small, distinct, the cuticle punctate. Underleaves broadly ovate to orbicular, twice as broad as the stem, the apex broad, cleft, the segments ending in a tooth 1-4 cells long. Male and female inflorescences and sporophyte not seen.

  • Discussion

    Kantia parallelogramma Spruce, Trans. Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 15: 413. 1885. Kantia trichomanis var. ß granulosa Wright, in Hb.

  • Distribution

    Habitat: On shaded rocks, damp soil and decayed logs in forests.

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