Meteorium illecebrum Sull.

  • 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

    Meteoriaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Meteorium illecebrum Sull.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Plants yellow-green, brown, or black. Secondary stems up to 40 cm long. Stem leaves appressed when dry, spreading when moist, concave but not cucullate, plicate, broadly ovate lanceolate to oblong-ovate from an auriculate base, apiculate, acuminate, or hair-pointed; margins undulate, papillose-denticulate; cells 1-4-papillose; apical cells 15-44 x 3-7 µm; median cells 23-57 x 3-6 µm; basal cells 13-42 x 5-10 µm; auricular cells 17-30 x 3-5 µm. Branches tumid, up to 4 cm long. Branch leaves similar to stem leaves, 2.2-3.4 x 1 -2 mm; apical cells 15-60 x 4-7 µm; median cells 24-67 x 3-7 µm; basal cells 17-45 x 5-11 µm; auricular cells 20-36 x 3-5 µm. Setae up to 8 mm long, rough above; capsules 1.5 mm long, oblong-ovoid; exostome and endostome papillose. Spores yellow-brown, roughened, 14-24 µm.

  • Discussion

    Fig. 544

    M. illecebrum Mitt., J. Linn. Soc, Bot. 12: 437. 1869.

    Anomodon flexilis Hampe, Linnaea 12: 350. 1838, non Meteorium flexile (Hedw.) Mitt., 1869.

    Antitrichia cuspidata Nees, Linnaea 19: 681. 1847, non Meteorium cuspidatum Okami. 1911.

    Neckera illecebra C. Mull., Syn Muse Frond. 2:137. 1850.

    Leskea heterophylla Hornsch. ex C. Mull., Syn. Muse. 2: 137. Neckera fusco-viridis Hampe, Linnaea 31: 526. 1862.

    N. atro-lutea C. Mull., Linnaea 38: 614.1874.

    Meteorium atro-luteum (C. Miill.) Jaeg., Ber. Thatigk. St. Gallischen Naturwiss. Ges. 1875-76: 1877.

    M. cladoniella [sic] C. Mail. ex Britt., Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 23:495. 1896.

    Papillaria cladomniella C. Miill., Nuovo Giorn Bot Ital II, 4:136. 1897.

    Meteorium illecebrumvar. teretiformeCard., Rev. Bryol. 38:40.1911.

    M. illecebrumvar. gracile Ther, Rev. Bryol. Lichenol. 5: 105. 1932 [1933].

    M. illecebrum fo. gracile Card. ex Thér., Rev. Bryol. Lichenol. 5:105. 1932 [1933], nom. nud.

    The concave but scarcely cucullate leaves are plicate, long-apiculate, and often hair-pointed.

  • Distribution

    Pendent from limbs oftrees, occasionally on trunks, sometimes on logs and moist rocks, at moderate to high altitudes; Chiapas, Distrito Federal, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacan, Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz.—Mexico to northern South America; West Indies.

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