Pinnatella minuta (Mitt.) Broth.

  • 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

    Pinnatella minuta (Mitt.) Broth.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Plants very small, dull yellow-green. Primary stems stoloniform, leafy, radiculose; secondary stems suberect or arching, 1-2 cm tall, irregularly to nearly regularly pinnately branched; branch tips blunt or occasionally flagelliform. Stipe leaves small, not overlapping, often squarrose, some with recurved tips, or erect-spreading, triangular-ovate; upper stem and branch leaves similar in shape, moderately overlapping, concave-flattened with longitudinal plicae when dry, elliptic, rounded to the insertion, broadly tapered above and rounded at the tip; margins mostly denticulate by projecting papillae; costa stout, subpercurrent, often flexuose above and commonly bifurcate at the tip; cells small, moderately thickwalled, with 1(-3) minute papillae, sub-isodiametric above and through the midleaf, oblong at base on cither side of the costa. Sporophytes unknown.

  • Discussion

    Fig. 563

    P. minuta (Mitt.) Broth, in E. & P., Nat. Pfl. 1(3): 857. 1906.

    Porotrichum minutum Mitt., J. Linn. Soc, Bot. 12: 465. 1869.

  • Distribution

    On calcareous rock and sometimes on tree trunks at lower elevations, near sea level to about 1300 m alt.; Tamaulipas and Veracruz.—Mexico; Guatemala and Costa Rica; Cuba and Haiti; Brazil (fide Wagner, 1951).

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