Schlotheimia lancifolia

E. B. Bartram

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.
... more about "Schlotheimia lancifolia"
awned +  and apiculate +
acuminate;acute +
Dale H. Vitt +
E. B. Bartram +
papillose +  and smooth +
not decurrent +
long-conic +  and campanulate +
plicate +  and smooth +
16-ribbed +, 8-ribbed +  and symmetric +
elliptic;cylindric +
not constricted +
0.14 cm1.4 mm <br />0.0014 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
differentiated +
irregularly quadrate;rounded-elliptic or roundedquadrate +
moderate elevations +
linear-lanceolate +
reflexed +, recurved +  and erect +
striate +  and papillose +
rectangular;elliptic +
connate +
occasional +
Logs, trunks of trees to 8 m, undisturbed hemlock hardwood zone +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.23 cm2.3 mm <br />0.0023 m <br />) +
oblong-lanceolate +  and narrowly lanceolate +
flexuose +
appressed to loosely +
channeled +, lanceolate-linear +, ligulate-oblong +, ovatelanceolate +, contorted +  and crisped +
denticulate +, plane to revolute +  and plane +
pseudautoicous +  and sexual +
tomentose +
rostrate;convex;conic +
mammillose +  and smooth +
2-fid +  and conic +
lateral +  and terminal +
sinistrorse +, dextrorse +  and erect +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
oblong-ligulate +
erect-patent +
lanceolate +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (1.6 cm16 mm <br />0.016 m <br />) +
superficial +
Schlotheimia lancifolia +
Schlotheimia +
species +
specialized +
cladautoicous +, pseudautoicous +, dioicous +  and sexual +
incrassate +
dark-brown;reddish-brown;dark-brown;reddish-brown;bright green +