Leucodontopsis floridana (Austin) E.Britton

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Pterobryaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Leucodontopsis floridana (Austin) E.Britton

  • Description

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    Species Description - Stems leafless except at the apical portions, there bearing small, ovatelanceolate, acuminate, ceostate, flat-bordered leaves; branches seldom more than 3 cm. long, simple or branched, when young more slender and flagellate, with smaller, less crowded leaves, when older with erect-appressed, crowded plicate leaves, up to 1.5 mm. long by 0.33 mm. broad at base; vein usually single, seldom double with a short accessory basal branch; alar cells fewer on one side, up to 81 10 rows, seldom reaching the vein; margins entire, revolute almost to the serrulate apex; cells spindle-shaped, with minute, terminal papillae on both surfaces. Flowers and fruit unknown; propagating by small septate brood-bodies borne in axillary clusters.

  • Distribution

    On trees in coppices, New Providence and Andros : Florida ; Cuba ; Puerto Rico ; Costa Rica and Panama. Florida Leucodontopsis.

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