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Microdus sphaerocarpus

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Type of Microdus sphaerocarpus (Broth.) Cardot [family DICRANACEAE]
Isotype of Dicranella sphaerocarpa Cardot [family DICRANACEAE]
Isotype of Dicranella sphaerocarpa Cardot [family DICRANACEAE]
Type of Microdus sphaerocarpus (Broth.) Cardot [family DICRANACEAE]
Isotype of Dicranella sphaerocarpa Cardot [family DICRANACEAE]
Type of Microdus sphaerocarpus (Broth.) Cardot [family DICRANACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Microdus sphaerocarpus (Broth.) Cardot [family DICRANACEAE ] (stored under name); Dicranella sphaerocarpa Cardot [family DICRANACEAE ]
Related name
  • Microdus sphaerocarpus
  • Dicranella sphaerocarpa

Flora

Entry for Dicranella lindigiana (Hampe) Mitten [family ]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 27,
Names
Dicranella lindigiana (Hampe) Mitten [family ], J. Linn. Soc., Bot., 12: 30. 1869,
Seligeria lindigiana Hampe [family ], Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér., 5, 3: 353. 1865
Dicranella sphaerocarpa Cardot [family ]
Microdus lindigianus (Hampe) Bescherelle [family ]
Microdus sphaerocarpus (Cardot) Brotherus [family ]
Treatment Author(s)
Howard A. Crum†
Information
Plants yellowish to green, 2–6 mm. Leaves erect-appressed or loosely erect-flexuose when dry, erect-spreading when moist, 1–2 mm, lanceolate; margins entire or minutely serrulate at the apex, recurved proximally; costa ending at or near the apex; cells thin-walled, rectangular, 5–7:1. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta yellow, 4–6 mm. Capsule 0.5–0.8 mm, erect, subglobose, smooth; annulus large, ± persistent; operculum curved, long-rostrate; peristome teeth 90–180 µm, papillose, entire or somewhat perforate along the middle. Spores 12–22 µm, finely papillose.
Phenology
Capsules mature spring.
Altitude range
low elevations;
Distribution
MexicoWest Indies (Puerto Rico)Central America (Costa Rica, Honduras)South America (Colombia).USA Fla.
Discussion
Dicranella lindigiana is a rare species only known in in the flora area from Leon. It has leaf margins that are narrowly recurved proximally and smooth, subglobose capsule with short, papillose peristome teeth that are entire or somewhat perforate along the middle.

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