View source for Brothera ← Brothera You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Brothera |accepted_authority=Müller Hal. |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Gen. Musc. Frond., |place=258. 1901 , }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Dicranaceae;Brothera |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Dicranaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Brothera]]</div></div> |etymology=For Viktor Ferdinand Brotherus, 1849–1929, Finnish bryologist |volume=Volume 27 |mention_page=page 359, 427, 440 |treatment_page=page 365 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small, 3–6 mm, in dense, yellowish to grayish green mats. <b>Stems</b> radiculose at base. <b>Leaves</b> erect-patent when dry, lanceolate, gradually contracted to a short, canaliculate apex; costa filling 2/3 of the leaf base, not sharply delimited from the lamina, excurrent, in transverse section with lax abaxial and adaxial hyalocysts and a median band of stereids; alar cells weakly differentiated, hyaline; basal laminal cells hyaline, of 8–10 rows, 2-stratose towards the costa, rectangular; distal laminal cells rectangular. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous. <b>Seta</b> 5–6 mm, yellowish, sinuose and twisted sinistrorse in the distal portion. <b>Capsule</b> erect, yellowish green, 0.5 × 1.2 mm, smooth, contracted towards the peristome; annulus present; operculum rostrate, half the length of the urn; peristome teeth 16, entire or rarely perforated, yellowish, striate at base and papillose at tips, 210–240 µm. <b>Calyptra</b> cucullate, fringed at base. <b>Spores</b> yellowish green, smooth, 10–13 µm; exothecial walls incrassate, variable, without stomata.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=e North America;Mexico;Central America;Asia;Africa. |discussion=<p>Species 1.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Brothera |author=Jan-Peter Frahm |authority=Müller Hal. |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Dicranaceae |distribution=e North America;Mexico;Central America;Asia;Africa. |reference=None |publication title=Gen. Musc. Frond., |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V27/V27_512.xml |genus=Brothera }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Dicranaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Dicranaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Brothera.