View source for Taxithelium

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Taxithelium
|accepted_authority=Spruce ex Mitten
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Linn. Soc., Bot.
|place=12: [20 – ]21, 496. 1869
|year=1869
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Sematophyllaceae;Taxithelium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Sematophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Taxithelium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek taxis, order, and thele, nipple, alluding to single row of papillae over cell lumina
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 571, 642
|treatment_page=page 582
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small, yellow-green, somewhat glossy. <b>Stems</b> 1–10 cm, complanate-foliate, irregularly to regularly pinnate. <b>Leaves</b> spreading to appressed, narrowly to broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate; margins entire or weakly to sharply toothed; apex short-acuminate; ecostate or costa double; alar cells rounded-rhomboid, enlarged or weakly inflated, pigmented, walls thin, without proximal row of inflated, elongate cells, middle lamella not apparent, supra-alar cells differentiated; laminal cells rhomboid to linear, 1-seriate multipapillose. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous. <b>Seta</b> 1.5 cm. <b>Capsule</b> inclined to horizontal, ovoid; exothecial cell walls not or weakly collenchymatous; operculum conic, short- or long-rostrate.</span><!--

-->{{Treatment/Body
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 40 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Taxithelium</i> occurs mainly in forests, generally as corticolous on tree trunks and branches, but also on logs, occasionally on rock and soil.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=dumanhuri1996a
|text=Dumanhuri, A. and R. E. Longton. 1996. Towards a revision of the moss genus Taxithelium (Sematophyllaceae). Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. Autón. México, Bot. 67: 35–58.
}}
}}<!--

--><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Taxithelium
|author=Wilfred B. Schofield†
|authority=Spruce ex Mitten
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Sematophyllaceae
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Australia.
|reference=dumanhuri1996a
|publication title=J. Linn. Soc., Bot.
|publication year=1869
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V28/V28_912.xml
|genus=Taxithelium
}}<!--

-->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Sematophyllaceae]]