Fabronia leikipiae Müll. Hal.

Yadav, S., Bhagat, C. & Asthana, G., 2019, Two species of Fabronia new to India, Arctoa 28 (2), pp. 218-221 : 219

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.15298/arctoa.28.19

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ADEB5B-376E-235C-FF17-3AF8FB39FD68

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Fabronia leikipiae Müll. Hal.
status

 

1. Fabronia leikipiae Müll. Hal. View in CoL , Flora 73: 487. 1890. Figs. 1 View Fig : 1–18.

Type Locality: Aberdare ( Sim, 1926).

Plants small, pleurocarpous, yellowish green and epiphytic. Main stem prostrate, irregularly branched, (5–) 10–15 mm long and 0.5–0.8 mm wide with leaves. Branches 3–4 mm long. Stem 0.05–0.12 mm in diameter. Stem in cross-section differentiated into 1–2 rows of outer small, slightly thick-walled cortical cells, 4–8×7– 12 µm, inner large, thin walled medullary cells, 15–19× 8–15 µm, central cells 3–5, small, thin-walled, hyaline. Leaves closely arranged, imbricate, 0.7–0.8 mm long and 0.2–0.3 mm wide, concave, ovate, acuminate, apex narrowed into long subula, margin generally entire, sometimes with minutely projected marginal cells. Costa single, not very strong (weak), short, reaching upto 1/2 of the leaf length. Leaf cells long, narrowly rhomboidal, apical cells (subula) 57–78×3–6 µm, upper and middle cells 30–45×7–11 µm, alar cells quadrate to rectangular, 3–5 cells in width and 12–15 cells in length along the margin, cells 11–15×7–11 µm. Sporophytes present on short lateral branches. Seta erect, 3–5 mm long, smooth. Capsule urn-shaped, small, 0.5–0.7× 0.3–0.4 mm. Peristome single, teeth in pairs, papillose. Spores spherical, papillose, 11–15 µm in diameter.

Habitat: Plants are epiphytic, growing on bark surface in association with Fabronia madurensis .

Specimen examined: South India: Tamil Nadu, Nilgiri Hills, Coonoor , Hidden forest , alt. ca. 1950 m, P. K . Verma , A . Alam & N . Sahu , 9-IV-2002, 15344/02 ( LWU) .

P

Museum National d' Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN) - Vascular Plants

K

Royal Botanic Gardens

A

Harvard University - Arnold Arboretum

N

Nanjing University

LWU

University of Lucknow

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Bryophyta

Class

Bryopsida

Order

Hypnales

Family

Fabroniaceae

Genus

Fabronia

Loc

Fabronia leikipiae Müll. Hal.

Yadav, S., Bhagat, C. & Asthana, G. 2019
2019
Loc

Fabronia leikipiae Müll. Hal.

Hal. 1890: 487
1890
GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF