Vesicularia vesicularis (Schwägr.) Broth.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Hypnaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Vesicularia vesicularis (Schwägr.) Broth.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Plants pale or yellowish green. Stems slender and rooting with short irregular branches; stem-leaves with long recurved tips up to 1 mm. long, about three times longer than broad; branch-leaves of two kinds, the lateral unsymmetric, shorter and less acuminate, up to 0.85 mm. and only about twice longer than broad with the cells about twice as long as wide; the upper and lower ones longer and narrower, with cells about five times longer than broad; leaves all ecostate or faintly bicostate, the margins bordered by one row of narrow cells, either entire or minutely toothed at apex; perichaetial leaves suddenly contracted to a slender recurved, entire or serrulate tip. Autoicous. Pedicel slender, 1.5-2 cm. long; capsule nodding, 1-1.5 mm., ovoid, with a distinct neck; walls of swollen inflated cells; lid conic-beaked; annulus large; peristome with a red base, teeth yellow, pale and papillose at apex, lamellate on the inside; endostome brown, the keeled segments split and papillose; spores small, ripe in winter.

  • Distribution

    On branches and roots of trees In coppices and in sink-holes, New Providence, Eleuthera and Andros : Florida ; West Indies and South America. Vesicularia.

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