Lejeunea flava (Sw.) Nees

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Lejeuneaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Lejeunea flava (Sw.) Nees

  • Description

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    Species Description - Plants pale to yellowish green, scattered or growing in depressed mats. Leaves imbricated, the dorsal lobe widely spreading, ovate, about 0.5 mm. long, rounded to obtuse at the apex; lobule inflated, ovate, more or less involute, apex tipped with a single blunt cell; leaf-cells thin-walled but usually with distinct trigones, averaging about 23µ in the middle of the lobe; underleaves usually subimbricated, orbicular, plane, bifid about one half with the segments usually sharp-pointed and the sinus narrow; inflorescence autoecious; female inflorescence borne on a more or less elongated branch with one or two subfloral innovations; bracts a little larger than the leaves; bracteole free, Ovate; perianth obovoid, the keels rounded in the upper part, smooth.

  • Distribution

    On bark, Waterloo and Maidenhead Coppice, New Providence : North Carolina to Florida and Texas ; Ireland ; Australia ; widely distributed in tropical regions throughout the world. Yellow Lejeunea.

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