Lepidopilum mohrianum 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

    Pilotrichaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Lepidopilum mohrianum Müll.Hal.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Plants rather large, green. Stems up to 4.5 cm long, (with leaves) up to 6 mm wide. Leaves slightly contorted when dry, 2.5-3.5 mm long, oblong to ovate-lanceolate, usually abruptly acuminate; margins serrate above; costae ending at or below the leaf middle; upper median cells linear to linearrhomboidal, 6-12:1 (shorter at the apex), not differentiated at the margins. Autoicous. Setae up to 8 mm long, red-brown, hispid. Calyptrae smooth.

  • Discussion

    Fig. 603

    L. mohrianum C. Miill., Linnaea 38: 649. 1874.

    L. sartorii C. Miill., Linnaea 38: 649. 1874, nom. nud. in syn.

    L. subenerve sensu Besch., Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 16: 228. 1872, non Brid., 1827.

  • Distribution

    On wet bark and rock, 1000-1400 m alt.; Puebla and Veracruz.--Mexico; Guatemala and Nicaragua.

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