Schlotheimia rugifolia (Hook.) Schwägr.
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Authority
Buck, William R. 2003. Guide to the plants of central french Guiana. Part 3. Mosses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76: 1-167.
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Family
Orthotrichaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - Plants medium-sized, mostly reddish brown, occasionally yellow- to olive-green; stems to ca. 8 cm long, branches 0.5-1 cm tall. Leaves spirally twisted when dry, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse-mucronate, strongly (or slightly) rugose above, rugose-plicate below, 1-1.5 x 0.5-0.6 mm; margins entire, plane above, plane to narrowly recurved below; costa short-excurrent; cells rounded-hexagonal to oval, ca. 12 µm in diameter, smooth, sometimes ± elongate in a single row juxta- costally; basal cells long-rectangular, 20-30 x 1.5-3 µm, thick- walled, porose, smooth or prorulose. Setae 0.2-0.4 cm long; capsules 1.5-2 mm long, short-cylindric, ± furrowed; peristome double, exos- tome teeth lanceolate, cross-striate; endostome of short segments. Calyptrae naked.
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Distribution
In non-flooded moist forests, common, ca. 200 m, on tree trunks and branches, usually in the canopy.
French Guiana South America|