Dicranella subinclinata

Dicranella subinclinata Lorentz, Moosst. 160. 1864
Dicranum caespitans Schimp.; Besch. M6m. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 16: 164. 1872. Dicranella stenocarpa Besch. Ann. Sci. Nat. VI. 3: 182. 1876. Dicranella Martinicae Broth. Symb. Ant. 3: 421. 1903.
Plants in rather loose, dull-green or brown tufts ; stems mostly simple, about 1 cm. high* with the leaves erect-appressed, somewhat curved when dry, erect-spreading when moist: stem-leaves below small, gradually larger upward, about 1.5 mm. long, lanceolate or oblonglanceolate with more or less recurved margins, a stout not quite percurrent costa, 60-70 ju wide at the base, and a narrowly obtuse, crenate apex; upper leaf-cells short, rectangular, mostly not more than twice as long as wide, 6-7 fx by 12-16 /x, the lower ones larger but mostly narrow, with colored, scarcely thinner walls to near the base; perichaetial leaves about 2.5 mm. long, from a scarcely clasping, ovate-lanceolate base gradually narrowed to a lanceolatelinear limb about twice as long, with recurved margins and an obtuse, crenate-toothed apex: seta reddish, at least when old, straight or somewhat flexuous, 1-1.5 cm. long: capsule symmetric, oval, smooth, erect or inclined, more or less contracted under the mouth when dry, with a large annulus and long, obliquely-rostrate lid; peris tome-teeth 250-275 [x high, vertically striate below and papillose above, divided more than two thirds down into slender, papillose segments: spores 16-18 n in diameter, finely papillose.
Typb locality: Near Panama. s*h ( %i t • ; p > ■ f • ,
Distribution: Mexico; Panama; Jamaica; Martinique. WAWt-**-*-i "•'.'' ■, /