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Taxonomy

Physical 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.^[1]

Distribution

Similar Species

Members of the genus Schlotheimia:

There are approximately 157 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: S. acutifolia · S. angulata · S. angulosa · S. angustata · S. angustifolia · 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. brachypoidia · 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. crassissima · S. crumii · S. cuspidifera · S. cyrtophylla · S. densifolia · S. dichotoma · S. donar · S. elata · S. emarginata-pilosa · S. emarginato-pilosa · S. emergens · S. excorrugata · S. exoptycha · 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. grandiareolata · S. grevilleana · S. henscheniana · S. horridula · S. illecebra · S. jamesonii · S. japonica · S. juliformis · S. knightii · S. krausei · S. lacunoides · S. laete-virens · S. laetevirens · S. lancifolia (Lanceleaf Schlotheimia Moss) · S. lasiomitria · S. latifolia · S. lindmanii · S. linearifolia · S. longicaulis · S. longiseta · S. lymensis · S. mac-gregorii · S. malacophylla · S. megastoma · 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. pilifer

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Notes

Identifiers:

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 1161609
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2134286

Footnotes:

1. Dale H. Vitt "Schlotheimia". in Bryophyte Flora of North America Vol. 2. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org.