Taxilejeunea
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Lejeuneaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Plants prostrate or sometimes pendulous, bright green to whitish green, medium-sized to greatly elongated, irregularly branched, the branches as in Badula. Leaves complicate-bilobed, the dorsal lobe often involute about the axis, usually acute or apiculate, with the margin more or less crenulate; leaf cells large, thin-walled but with distinct and often large trigones. Underleaves medium-sized to large, often closely imbricated, bifid, usually crenulate. Antheridia usually borne in pairs in the axils of small saccate bracts, the androecia occupying short branches. Archegonia borne singly on branches of variable length, with subfloral innovations, the latter often repeatedly floriferous; bracts smaller than the leaves. Perianth sometimes terete but usually five-kelled in the upper part, the keels smooth or winged. [Greek, swift Lejeunea.'] About 100 species, mostly tropical. Type species: T. chintr borazensis (Spruce) Steph.