Meteoridium remotifolium (Müll.Hal.) Manuel
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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
Meteoriaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - Plants relatively robust, in dull, green to golden brown, some¬times black-tinged, often dense, pendent masses, but sometimes rambling among herbaceous vegetation; stems pendent to creeping, to ca. 40 cm long, irregularly short-branched. Leaves wide-spreading to squarrose from the leaf base, lanceolate-ovate to ovate, ± gradu¬ally piliferous, the apex often twisted, (1)1.5-2.3 x 0.4-0.8 mm; margins sharply serrulate to denticulate almost to base; costa ending near midleaf, sometimes projecting as a small spine at apex; cells linear, 60-100 x 4-6 pm, thin-walled, becoming thicker-walled and ± porose in the acumen, becoming shorter, thicker-walled and porose toward the insertion; alar cells in small excavate groups, short- rectangular, thick-walled, porose. Asexual propagula sometimes of microphyllous, flagellate branches. Setae 2.5-3.0 mm long, curved above; capsules mostly short-exserted, 1.5-2.0 mm long, with an abrupt, prominent neck.
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Distribution
In non-flooded moist forests and montane forests on slopes and summit of Mont Galbao, somewhat common, 450-700 m, on twigs and branches and to a lesser extent on leaves.
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