Braunia squarrulosa (Hampe) Müll.Hal.

  • Authority

    Sharp, Aaron J., et al. 1994. The Moss Flora of Mexico. Part Two: Orthotrichales to Polytrichales. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 69 (2)

  • Family

    Hedwigiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Braunia squarrulosa (Hampe) Müll.Hal.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Stems 7-10 cm long, freely and sometimes subpinnately branched; branches often curved. Leaves imbricate and strongly phcate when dry, spreading to wide-spreading when moist, ca. 2 mm long, ending in a slender, ihyahne, spreading to recurved tip; margins revolute in the lower 1/3-2/3, erose-denticulate at the tip. Autoicous. Setae 3-7 mm long; capsules 1.3-1.5 mm long, wide-mouthed and subglobose from a very short neck, smooth or somewhat wrinkled (but not furrowed) when dry, brownish. Spores ca. 40 µm.

  • Discussion

    Fig. 497g-i

    B. squarrulosa (Hampe) C. Miill., Linnaea 42: 380. 1879.

    Harrisonia squarrulosa Hampe, Linnaea 12: 349. 1838.

    Hedwigidium squarruhsum (Hampe) B.S.G., Bryol Fur 3(fasc 29/30). 1846.

    Neckera sphaerocarpa C. Miill., Syn. Muse. Frond. 2:105.1850, non Hook., 1808.

    N. UebmannmnumC. Miill., Syn. Muse. Frond. 2: 668.1851.

    Hedwigidium liebmannianum (C. Miill.) Schimp., Syn. Muse. Eur. 230.1860.

    Hedwigia squarrulosa (Hampe) Mitt., J. Linn. Soc, Bot. 12: 407. 1869.

    H. liebmannianum (C. Miill.) Mitt, J. Linn. Soc, Bot. 12: 407.1869.

    Braunia liebmanniana (C. Mull.) Schimp. ex Besch., Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 16: 185. 1872.

    Braunia sphaerocarpa (C. Miill.) C. Miill., Bull. Herb. Boissier 5:201. 1897.

    Although highly variable in gametophytic characters, B. squarrulosa is made recognizable by strongly plicate leaves ending in slender, often capillary tips that are recurved when dry and subglobose, non-furrowed capsules exserted on short setae.

  • Distribution

    On trunks and limbs oftrees, especially oaks, and also (less commonly) on logs and rock or banks of soil at altitudes of 1800-3500 m; Chiapas, Distrito Federal, Durango, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacan, Morelos, Oaxaca, Sinaloa, Veracruz.—Mexico; Guatemala.

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