Haplocladium microphyllum (Hedw.) Broth.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Leskeaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Haplocladium microphyllum (Hedw.) Broth.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Plants dark green or yellow. Stems creeping and rooting, sometimes quite slender and branching irregularly; branches short and simple, erect; leaves crowded, spreading or secund, ovate, acuminate, small, up to 0.5 mm. long, those of the branches smaller and less acuminate than those of the stem; vein excurrent into a long tip; margins minutely toothed; cells small, square or oblong, papillose only on the back; leaves at base of pedicel longer and paler, erect. Pedicel 2-2.5 cm. long, slender, erect; capsule 1 mm. long, horizontal and curved; annulus falling with the conic lid; peristome double, the inner with keeled segments and 3 cilia; spores smooth, maturing in summer.

  • Distribution

    On rocks in coppices. New Providence and Great Exuma : Florida ; Bermuda; Cuba: Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Mexico and South America. Small leaved Haplocladium.

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