Schliephackea meteorioides (R.S.Williams) Broth.

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Pflanzenfam. ed. 2. 10: 207. 1924.
Cerro de las Lajas, nos. 51606, 51601; La Hondura, no. 51811; Zurqui no.
48215, Cerro de las Caricias, no. 52171, c. fr.; Cerros de Zurqui, nos. 50516
50525.	1
Distribution: Panama.
This is an especially instructive series of a rare species, known heretofore only
from the type locality in Panama; and as the specimens under no. 52171 show
the first mature capsules that have been found so far, it may be worth while to
give a brief description of the peristome characters, which definitely place the
plant in the genus Schliephackea, as surmised by Brotherus: Seta yellow, smooth,
flexuous; capsule smooth, cylindric, 2.25 mm. long by 0.75 mm. wide; exothecal
cells oval-rectangular, up to about 65 m long by about 20 m wide, with rather
regular, yellowish-pellucid walls, smaller toward the mouth, 3 or 4 rows around
the rim obscure, dark reddish brown; stomata few, in about two rows at the
extreme base; peristome inserted below the mouth and projecting about 225 it
above the rim; teeth 60 m wide at the base, tapering gradually to a blunt
truncate apex, incurved, tawny red, coarsely papillose; articulations 10 to 12,
thick, projecting on the edges, solid or indistinctly perforate along the median
line; spores slightly rough, about 17 n in diameter.
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PLANTS OF COSTA RICA
Cerro de Las Lajas, north of San Isidro,
Provincia de Heredia, altitude 2000-2400 meters.
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March 7, 1926.
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