Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Limbella fryei	Patricia M. Eckel

Plants small to large, yellow-green to blackish. Stems coarse, often dendroid, irregularly branched to subpinnate beyond ± naked stem; hyalodermis absent, central strand present; paraphyllia absent; rhizoids at stem base, densely matted, not forming tomentum, smooth; axillary hair distal cells 4–7, hyaline. Stem-leaves spreading, straight or incurved, ovate-oblong or ovatelanceolate, not plicate, 1.5–3.5 mm; base not decurrent; margins plane, serrulate to serrate, occasionally entire, limbidia conspicuous or poorly developed, usually submarginal, (2–) 4-stratose, cells incrassate; apex acuminate to subulate, or cuspidate; costa single, strong, percurrent to short-excurrent; alar cells undifferentiated; basal laminal cells usually oblong; distal cells subquadrate to rhomboidal, 3–36 × 3–18 µm. Branch leaves similar. Sexual condition dioicous. [Capsule horizontal to cernuous, oblong-cylindric, asymmetric, sometimes arcuate; peristome hypnoid; exostome margins dentate; endostome cilia appendiculate. Spores 14–18 µm].

Distribution

Oreg., Pacific Islands (Hawaii)

Discussion

Species 2 (1 in the flora).

Species of Limbella have been included previously in Sciaromium (Mitten) Mitten, a synonym of Echinodium Juratzka (S. P. Churchill 1986). Limbella tricostata (Sullivant) Brotherus is endemic to Hawaii.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Limbella fryei

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