Symblepharis schimperiana

Symblepharis schimperiana (Paris) Card. Rev
Bryol. 38 : 99. 1911.
Syrrhopodon circinalus Schimp.; Besch. Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 16: 172. 1872. Not Symblepharis circinata Besch. 1880. Syrrhopodon S chimp erianus Paris, Index Bryol. 1254. 1898.
Dioicous: male plants similar to the fertile, with several lateral and terminal, rather conspicuous buds, the larger perigonial leaves like those of the stem with usually a few inner, very small, pale leaves less than 1 mm. long, enclosing 10-15 antheridia about 0.5 mm. long and numerous, filiform paraphyses: fertile plants in large, yellowish-green tufts, with mostly freely branching stems, tomentose below and up to 4 or rarely 7 cm. high: stem-leaves crispate when dry, from a more or less obovate, erect, pale, clasping base rather more than 1 mm. high gradually narrowed to a lanceolate? somewhat grooved point 5-6 times as long with flat, papillose, otherwise entire margins; costa slightly excurrent, mostly finely papillose on the upper side and smooth on the under side, up. to .100 ju wide_nearjtheb_ase, in cross-section near the middle < showing 6-9 guide-cells, large stereid-bands above and below and outer cells differentiated on , the upper sidecells of the leaf-blade in the base pale, elongate-hexagonal to rectangular, mostly 20-40" //long and 8-10 n wide, usually with thickened, pitted walls toward the costa in the upper part of the base, the cells of the spreading point green, more or less obscure, mostly short, densely and minutely papillose on both sides with scarcely thickened walls, the median ones short-oblong to nearly square or slightly roundish, 6 by 6 „ to 7 by 10 p; peri'■chaetial leaves very similar to those of the stem: seta erect, single or sometimes 2 from the same perichaetium, 1-1.5 mm. long: capsule erect, cylindric, smooth, 2.5-3 mm long, with few, scattered stomata at the base; peristome-teeth erect, pale, inserted below the mouth, ■often quite irregular, densely papillose, not striate, more or less divided into 2 or 3 forks or sometimes only vertically grooved, projecting about 200 p above the rim; lid and calyptra not seen: spores rough, 12-16 /x in diameter.
Type locality: Orizaba, Vera Cruz.
Distribution: Mexico; Guatemala; Jamaica,