Schlotheimia tecta J. D. Hooker & Wilson 1844

Schlotheimia tecta Hook. & Wils. Lond
Jour. Bot. 3: 157. 1 Mr 1844.
Schlotheimia immersa C. Mull. Bot. Zeit. 2: 740. 25 1844.
Plants in dense, red-brown mats, green only at the tips of the new growth; secondary stems 3-4 cm. high, bearing short, stout branches above; leaves keeled and spirally twisted above when dry, spreading when moist, crowded, up to 3 mm. long/ lanceolate, acuminate, the margins entire, plane, or slightly undulate; costa excurrent into a narrow point; leaf -cells smooth, incrassate, the outer and marginal portions of the lamina containing obliquely elongate, subrectangular cells, the marginal cells smaller, the juxtacostal oblong and less oblique, all gradually elongating to the linear basal cells, which have porose walls as wide as the lumen ; perichaetial leaves up to 5-6 mm. long, rugose above, gradually narrowed to a slender, nearly entire upper portion which is nearly as long as the broader basal part; seta only 1 mm. long; capsules terminal or lateral by innovations, immersed, 2 mm. long, smooth, oblong-ovoid, dark brown; calyptra split at the base into 2-6 incurved lobes, rough at the apex, not covering the whole capsule; operculum rostrate; peristome double, the teeth with thickened striate sections,
2. S. rugi folia.
4. 5. Hanseni. 59
carinate
rough, 40 n in diameter, maturing in spring.
Type locality: Serra das Orgaos, Brazil (Gardener 71).
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Section 2. Ligularia C. Mull. Syn. 1: 754. 1849. Sect. Euschlotheimia Mitt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 12: 219. 1869. Seta long; capsules exserted.