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Schlotheimia angustata Mitten 1869

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Schlotheimia angustata Mitt. Jour
Linn. Soc. 12:223. 1869.
Schlotheimia sarcotricha C. Miill. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 196. 1897,
Plants in rather dense mats, dark green, brown below; secondary stems slender, little branched, about 1 cm. long; leaves somewhat twisted when dry, scarcely crisped, appressed, erect-open when moist; upper and perichaetial leaves 2.5-3 mm. long, from an oblong base, rather abruptly narrowed to a linear upper portion about equal in length to the broader base and very fragile, broken off in most leaves, entire, plicate, sparingly or not at all rugose; lower leaves often oblong-lanceolate and merely narrowly acute; costa nearly or quite percurrent, occupying K~M of the narrow upper leaf; upper cells of the broad portion of the leaf roundedquadrate to hexagonal, 6-7 /* in diameter, very regularly arranged, smaller and more rounded at the margins, below changing to elliptic, linear to rhomboidal at the base and incrassate, the walls as wide as the lumen, all smooth; seta 3.5-4 mm. long, smooth; capsules erect, cylindric, the neck short, the urn up to 2 mm. long, narrowed at the mouth, slightly sulcate; calyptra smooth, rather deeply lobed; operculum rostrate; peristome double, the outer teeth linear, thick, reflexed when dry, the inner linear, of equal length.
Type locality: On palm trunks, "Monte Campana," alt. 4000 ft., Peruvian Andes {Spruce 113). Distribution: Guatemala (Standley 92160) ; Andes of Peru and Bolivia.
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North American flora. vol 15A (1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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