Description
Genus Schlotheimia
Plants medium-sized, in dense, tomentose
, usually reddish-brown mats on trees
. Stems creeping
, with numerous
, ascending
, stout, usually forked
branches up to 2 cm high. Branch
leaves appressed
to loosely-appressed, erect
, often spirally-twisted around stem when dry, narrowly lanceolate to oblong-ligulate, usually acute, apiculate
or long-cuspidate, sometimes rugose
; margins
entire
; costa strong
, excurrent or ending at apex; distal laminal
cells
small, rarely greater than 10 µm, rounded
, thick-walled, usually smooth
; basal laminal cells elongate
, porose
. Sexual condition pseudautoicous
, dwarf
male plants
on leaves of female plant. Seta smooth. Capsule fully exserted, rarely immersed
; elliptic
to cylindric
, erect, usually smooth or lightly plicate
; stomates superficial; peristome double
; endostome segments 16, shorter than exostome
, pale
sometimes rudimentary
; exostome teeth 16, well-developed, linear-lanceolate, often blunt
, erect or recurved, thick densely papillose-striate. Calyptra mitrate, long-conic to campanulate
, 4--6 lobed
at base
, naked or hairy
, usually covering entire capsule. Spores anisosmorphic.
Species 100--150; pantropical
; Mexico, Central America, South America, Africa, Australia, Pacific Islands (New Zealand).
The distinctive dark-reddish coloration
, habit in tree canopies and on tree trunks, and 4--6 lobed, campanulate calyptra are diagnostic features of this genus.Dale H. Vitt "Schlotheimia". in Bryophyte Flora of North America Vol. 2. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org.
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,941 meters (0 to 9,649 feet).Mean = 770.500 meters (2,527.887 feet), Standard Deviation = 941.050 based on 20 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Plants
- Phylum:
Bryophyta
()
- Mosses
- Class:
Bryopsida
()
- Mosses
- Order:
Orthotrichales
()
- Family:
Noctuoidea
()
- Genus:
Schlotheimia
()
- Bridel, Musc. Recent. Suppl. 2: 16. 1812.
- Schlotheimia Moss
- Specific epithet:
angustata
- Mitten, 1869
- Botanical name: - Schlotheimia angustata Mitten, 1869
- Specific epithet:
angustata
- Mitten, 1869
- Genus:
Schlotheimia
(
- Family:
Noctuoidea
(
- Order:
Orthotrichales
(
- Class:
Bryopsida
(
- Phylum:
Bryophyta
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 19-Jul-2004
Similar Species
Members of the genus Schlotheimia
There are approximately 137 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
S. acutifolia · S. angulata · S. angulosa · S. angustata · S. appressifolia · S. appunii · S. araucarieti · S. argentinica · S. asperrima · S. atlantica · S. badiella · S. balfourii · S. bequaertii · S. boiviniana · S. brachyphylla · S. brachypoda · S. brachypodia · S. breviseta · S. brownii · S. calomitria · S. campbelliana · S. campylopus · S. capillaris · S. capillidens · S. chamissonis · S. clavata · S. compacta · S. congolensis · S. conica · S. crumii · S. cuspidifera · S. cyrtophylla · S. densifolia · S. dichotoma · S. donar · S. elata · S. emarginato-pilosa · S. emergens · S. excorrugata · S. extranodosa · S. fasciculata · S. fauriei · S. ferruginea · S. fornicata · S. foveolata · S. fragilifolia · S. funiformis · S. furcata · S. fuscoviridis · S. gauthieri · S. glauca · S. glaziovii · S. gracilescens · S. gracilis · S. grammocarpa · S. grandi-areolata · S. grevilleana · S. henscheniana · S. horridula · S. illecebra · S. jamesonii · S. japonica · S. juliformis · S. knightii · S. krausei · S. laete-virens · S. lancifolia (Lanceleaf Schlotheimia Moss) · S. lasiomitria · S. latifolia · S. lindmanii · S. linearifolia · S. longicaulis · S. longiseta · S. mac-gregorii · S. malacophylla · S. microcarpa · S. microphylla · S. muelleri · S. nossi-beana · S. pabstiana · S. papuana · S. paraguensis · S. pauli · S. percuspidata · S. perrieri · S. perrotii · S. perserrata · S. phaeochlora · S. pilicalyx · S. pilomitria · S. pobeguinii · S. poecilodictyon · S. pseudoaffinis · S. puiggarii · S. pungens · S. pungentissima · S. recurvifolia · S. regnellii · S. rhystophylla · S. richardii
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Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Taxonomicon/]. Access date: Nov 23, 2005
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- MOST: Moss TROPICOS Database
- Moss TROPICOS DatabaseJul 1, 2004.
- Moss TROPICOS: the World Checklist of Mosses
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:
- Missouri Botanical Garden
- UNIBIO, IBUNAM: MEXU/Colección de Briofitas
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3338243
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: MOS-35149419
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 433739
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 529988
