Schlotheimia lancifolia
Bryologist 35: 9, plate 3. 1932.
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 28. Treatment on page 72.
Plants bright green, reddish-brown, or dark-brown. Stems to 1.6 cm. Stem-leaves oblong-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, not rugose, 1.5–2.3 mm; margins sometimes serrulate at apex; apex gradually acute or acuminate; costa percurrent; distal laminal cells irregularly quadrate to rounded-elliptic, 6–8 µm. Seta 3–5 mm. Capsule 1.4–2 mm. Calyptra smooth.
Habitat: Logs, trunks of trees to 8 m, undisturbed hemlock hardwood zone
Elevation: moderate elevations
Discussion
Of conservation concern.
Schlotheimia lancifolia is extremely rare and endemic to the southern Blue Ridge Escarpment. It differs from S. rugifolia in having non-rugose, gradually acute leaves.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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