Neckera chlorocaulis 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

    Neckeraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Neckera chlorocaulis Müll.Hal.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Plants of moderate size, flattened or rarely subjulaceous, green or yellow-green. Secondary stems suberect, horizontal, or pendent, irregularly to regularly pinnate; branches blunt, tapered, or sometimes flagellate-tipped; paraphyllia none to numerous, simple, lanceolate. Leaves distinctly undulate, 2-3.5 mm long, oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acute to acuminate; margins entire to weakly serrulate; costa short and double or none; cells oblong-rhomboidal above, oblong-linear and ± flexuose below; basal cells ± pitted, those at the basal angles poorly differentiated. Autoicous. Outer perichaetial bracts scale-like, the inner oblong-ovate, moderately long-acuminate, entire to serrulate above, with tips plane, concave, or twisted; costa single and weak. Setae less than 1/2 the length ofthe capsule; capsules immersed, ca. 1.5 mm long, oblong-ovoid, brown; exostome teeth up to 700 µm long, narrowly lanceolate, striolate below, papillose and ± perforate above, with the divisural line faint below, more evident above, ± trabeculate at back; endostome consisting of a low membrane and linear, keeled, papillose segments up to 3/4 the length of the teeth. Spores (23-)26(-28) µm, densely papillose. Calyptrae cucullate, naked.

  • Discussion

    Fig. 558

    N. chlorocaulis C. Miill., Syn. Muse Frond. 2: 663. 1851.

    N. orbignyana Lor., Moosstud. 164. 1864.

    N. leptophylla Schimp. ex Besch., Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 16: 220. 1872.

    N. liebmannii Schimp. ex Besch., Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 16: 220. 1872.

  • Distribution

    On trunks of tree at 2000-3300 m alt.; Chiapas, Distrito Federal, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Veracruz.—Mexico; Guatemala and Costa Rica.

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