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Published In: Phytologia 41: 29. 1978. (Phytologia) Name publication detailView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 9/23/2017)
Acceptance : Accepted
Note : Alternative name: Geheebia laevigata (Mitt.) R.H. Zander
Project Data     (Last Modified On 10/6/2017)
Plant Category: Mosses
country distribution: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
EcoRegions: Páramo, Puna, Open montane
elevation: 2000-2500, 2500-3000, 3000-3500, 3500-4000, 4000-4500, 4500-5000
substrate: soil, rocks
frequency: common

Notes     (Last Modified On 10/6/2017)
Notes:
Ecology: Open high montane to páramo and puna; on soil and rock. Elevation: 2250-4620 m (Venezuela: 2900-3300 m, Colombia: 3250-4350 m, Ecuador: 2400-3900 m, Peru: 3000-4620 m, Bolivia: 2250-4050 m). Distribution: Central America, West Indies and Tropical Andes.
 
Didymodon laevigatus is characterized by the absence of a stem hyalodermis, ovate-narrowly lanceolate to ovate-subulate leaves to ca. 3 mm, acute apex, recurved margins usually bistratose, percurrent to more typically short excurrent costa, 2 stereid bands, long rectangular upper adaxial costal (epidermal) cells, lamina cells thick-walled, smooth, quadrate-rounded to transversely oblong upper cells, and rectangular basal cells. Reports of Barbula fusca Müll. Hal. by Williams (1913) and Herzog (1916) are D. laevigatus fide Jiménez and Cano (2008. Bryologist 109: 392-397).
 
Didymodon laevigatus se caracteriza por la ausencia de hialodermis en el tallo, hojas ovado-angostamente lanceoladas a ovado-subuladas hasta ca. 3 mm, ápices agudos, márgenes recurvados generalmente biestratificados, costa percurrente a más típicamente corto excurrente, 2 franjas de estereidas, células adaxialeslargo superiores de la costa rectangulares (epidérmicas), células de la lámina con paredes gruesas, lisas, células superiores cuadrado-redondeadas a transversalmente oblongas, y células basales rectangulares. Reportes de Barbula fusca Müll. Hal. realizados por Williams (1913) y Herzog (1916) son D. laevigatus fide Jiménez y Cano (2008. Bryologist 109: 392-397).

 


 

 
 
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