View source for Cryphaea ← Cryphaea 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=Cryphaea |accepted_authority=D. Mohr |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=in F. Weber, Tab. Calyptr. Operc., [ |place=3]. 1814 |year=1814 }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Cryphaeaceae;Cryphaea |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cryphaeaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cryphaea]]</div></div> |etymology=Greek kryphos, concealment, alluding to immersed sporophytes |volume=Volume 28 |mention_page=page 584, 599, 652 |treatment_page=page 585 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small, green to glaucous or brownish green. <b>Stems</b> with secondary stems decumbent to spreading and ascending, branches short to elongate, simple or irregularly branched; paraphyllia and pseudoparaphyllia absent. <b>Leaves</b> tightly imbricate when dry, usually wide-spreading when moist; margins plane or somewhat recurved proximally; medial laminal cells smooth or prorulose abaxially, especially distally, mostly smooth adaxially. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous; perichaetia lateral, inner leaves usually ± awned, awns usually denticulate. <b>Seta</b> very short. <b>Capsule</b> immersed; peristome double (single in <i>C. ravenelii</i>); exostome teeth narrowly triangular; endostome segments narrow, papillose, sometimes indistinct or absent. <b>Calyptra</b> conic or sometimes almost cucullate, smooth or papillose.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Nearly worldwide;mostly tropical and subtropical regions. |discussion=<p>Species ca. 60 (4 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p><i>Cryphaea</i> occurs in thin or dense colonies, with slender, often inconspicuous branches standing out from the substrate. The dull, wiry aspect of the spreading, mostly simple branches is characteristic.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Leaf apices rounded to bluntly acute; peristome single; exostome teeth in pair s. |[[Cryphaea ravenelii|Cryphaea ravenelii]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Leaf apices acute to acuminate; peristome double; exostome teeth single |[[#key-0-2| > 2]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Leaf costae percurrent or nearly so; apices acuminate. |[[Cryphaea nervosa|Cryphaea nervosa]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Leaf costae not percurrent; apices acute to short-acuminate |[[#key-0-3| > 3]] |-id=key-0-3 |3 |Inner perichaetial leaves 2.5-2.8 mm, awns 1/2 length expanded portion of leaf; leaf costae tip not 2-fid; s Florida. |[[Cryphaea filiformis|Cryphaea filiformis]] |-id=key-0-3 |3 |Inner perichaetial leaves 1.6-1.9 mm, awns 1/5 -1/4 length expanded portion of leaf; leaf costae tip ± 2-fid; e, se United States. |[[Cryphaea glomerata|Cryphaea glomerata]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Cryphaea |author=William D. Reese† |authority=D. Mohr |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Cryphaeaceae |distribution=Nearly worldwide;mostly tropical and subtropical regions. |reference=None |publication title=in F. Weber, Tab. Calyptr. Operc., [ |publication year=1814 |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V28/V28_917.xml |genus=Cryphaea }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Cryphaeaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Cryphaeaceae (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 Cryphaea.