Difference between revisions of "Acroporium"
J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 10: 182. 1868.
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 | Acroporium smallii | Patricia M. Eckel |
Plants small, yellowish to golden yellow, glossy. Stems 1 [–10] cm, not or weakly complanate-foliate, irregularly to regularly pinnate or sometimes simple. Leaves imbricate or strongly divergent, sometimes somewhat falcate, narrowly to broadly ovatelanceolate; margins entire; apex acute to acuminate; costa double or ecostate; alar cells elongate, inflated, pigmented, walls thin, region in 1 row, middle lamella not apparent, supra-alar cells not apparently differentiated; laminal cells narrowly rhomboid to linear, smooth or rarely 1-papillose. Sexual condition autoicous [synoicous, dioicous, or phyllodioicous]. Seta 0.4–0.7 cm. Capsule erect to inclined, ovoid to cylindric; exothecial cell-walls collenchymatous; operculum conic, finely rostrate.
Distribution
Fla., Mexico, Central America, South America, Asia, Africa, Pacific Islands, Australia, tropical and subtropical regions, predominantly Indo-Malaysia
Discussion
Species ca. 60 (1 in the flora).
Selected References
None.