Cephalozia crassifolia (Lindenb. & Gottsche) Fulford

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Cephaloziaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Cephalozia crassifolia (Lindenb. & Gottsche) Fulford

  • Description

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    Species Description - Plants small, slender, pale green tinged with brown, in mats or scattered among other bryophytes; stems prostrate, pellucid, 1-1.5 cm long, with leaves 0.5-0.8 mm wide, irregularly branched; branches ventral-intercalary, leafy, often bearing male or female inflorescences. Rhizoids from cells of the ventral side of the stem, the tips branched. Line of leaf insertion nearly longitudinal. Leaves distant to approximate, plane, widely spreading to slightly ascendant, decurrent, suborbicular, 0.4-0.5 mm long, 0.3 mm wide, often smaller toward the tip of the stem, the lateral margins convex, bilobed to one-fourth the length, the segments connivent, short, triangular-acuminate, ending in two single cells; cells of the tip 39-52 µ, very rarely to 65 µ long, 13-18 µ wide, cells below the sinus mostly 52-65 X 39-50 µ, with 1 cell often much smaller, the walls uniformly thickened, without trigones, the cuticle smooth. Underleaves absent. Female inflorescence on a short ventral branch with few leaves, the bracts and bracteoles in 3 or 4 series, bifid, the segments triangular, entire. Perianth long, cylindrical below, 3-keeled above, the mouth ciliate, the cilia 3 or 4 cells long, the basal cell to 78 µ, the tip cell 78 X 26 µ. Male inflorescence and sporophyte not seen.

  • Discussion

    Jungermannia crassifolia Lindenberg & Gottsche in G. L. & N. Syn. Hep. 685. 1847. Blepharostoma sandvicensis Trevisan, Mem. 1st. Lomb. III. 4: 417. 1877. Cephalozia forficata Spruce, On Cephalozia 46. 1882. Cephalozia subg. 5 Eucephalozia, forficata Spruce, On Cephalozia 46. 1882. Cephalozia sandvicensis auct. [American plants.]

  • Distribution

    Habitat: On moist rocks, logs, banks and trees and among other bryophytes in wooded areas.

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