Brothera leana (Sull.) Müll.Hal.

  • Authority

    Sharp, Aaron J., et al. 1994. The Moss Flora of Mexico. Part One: Sphagnales to Bryales. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 69 (1): 1-452.

  • Family

    Dicranaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Brothera leana (Sull.) Müll.Hal.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Plants up to 15 mm high. Leaves 1-3 mm long. Not fruiting in North America.

  • Discussion

    Fig. 109

    B. leana (Sull.) C. Mull., Gen. Muse Frond. 259. 1900 [1901].

    Leucophanes (?) leanum Sull., Musci Allegh. no. 172. 1845.

    Campylopus leanus (Sull.) Sull. in Gray, Man. Bot. ed. 2, 619. 1856.

    Brothera ankerkronae C. Miill., Gen. Muse Frond. 258. 1901, fide Ochyra, 1990.

    The field aspect suggests a small Leucobryum. The plants also resemble Paraleucobryum in appearance and leaf structure, but the small, slender, rigidly erect-flexuose leaves, scarcely differentiated alar cells, and densely clustered brood leaves are distinctive. (All Guatemalan collections can be referred to Campylopus fragilis, which has similar clusters of brood leaves.)

  • Distribution

    On decaying wood or humus, also on bark at base of trees and rock or soil at moderate elevations; Jalisco, Nayarit, Veracruz.—Mexico; rare and scattered in eastern United States but more common southward (Ohio to Virginia and North Carolina, west to Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas); Japan and southern and eastern Siberia; reported from Korea, Taiwan, and Sikkim.

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