Frullania ericoides (Nees ex Mart.) Mont.
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Authority
Gradstein, S. Robbert & Ilkiu-Borges, Anna L. 2009. Guide to the plants of Central French Guiana. Part 4. Liverworts and hornworts. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76 (4): i-iv + 1-140.
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Family
Frullaniaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - Plants 1-1.5 mm wide, green to reddish brown, creeping but not closely appressed to substrate, loosely 1-2-pinnate, usually forming large mats. Leaf lobes convolute when dry, strongly and irregularly squarrose when wet, fragile, margins usually fragmenting, ovate- orbicular, apex rounded, plane, margins entire, bases auriculate. Cells in upper part of leaf isodiametrical, 20-25 µm, walls sinuose, trigones and intermediate thickenings well-developed, often bulging and becoming confluent; ocelli lacking. Lobules close to stem, erect, helmet-shaped, not longer than wide, sometimes laminate, base very narrowly attached to lobe (by only few cells). Stylus small, erect, lanceolate. Underleaves bifid to 1/3 of length, densely imbricate, 3-4 times stem width, orbicular, margins entire or with 1-2 blunt teeth, plane, bases cuneate. Dioicous. Gynoecia on short branches, margins of bracts and bracteoles somewhat toothed. Perianths somewhat flattened, obovoid, 3-keeled, surface rough by tubercles and scale-like outgrowths. Vegetative reproduction by fragmenting leaf lobes.