Fissidens elegans Brid.

  • Authority

    Buck, William R. 2003. Guide to the plants of central french Guiana. Part 3. Mosses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76: 1-167.

  • Family

    Fissidentaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Fissidens elegans Brid.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Plants small, to ca. 7.5 mm tall. Leaves 0.8-1.6 x 0.3 mm, acute and ending in a sharp, pellucid cell, vaginant laminae ± equal; margins crenulate to serrulate above, entire to remotely denticulate on vaginant laminae, limbate 3/4 of length to throughout vaginant laminae of perichaetial leaves or sometimes all leaves, sometimes intramarginal; costa subpercurrent to short-excurrent; cells rounded-hexagonal, 4-8 pm in diameter, pluripapillose.

  • Distribution

    In non- flooded moist forests, common, 200-300 m, on rocks, especially along streams, and soil.

    French Guiana South America|