Difference between revisions of "Isoëtes lithophila"

N. Pfeiffer

Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 9: 135. 1922.

Common names: Rock quillwort
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Revision as of 21:14, 27 May 2020

Plants becoming terrestrial. Rootstock nearly globose, 2-lobed. Leaves deciduous, bright green, pale toward base, spirally arranged, to 12(–20) cm, pliant, gradually tapering to tip. Velum covering entire sporangium. Sporangium wall unpigmented. Megaspores light gray to gray-brown, 290–360 μm diam., obscurely rugulate with low ridges; girdle obscure. Microspores brown in mass, 30–33 μm, tuberculate to spinulose. 2n = 22.


Phenology: Spores mature in winter or spring.
Habitat: Shallow depressions on granite outcrops

Discussion

Isoëtes lithophila is known from granite outcrops in Burnett, Mason, and Llano counties in south central Texas.

Of conservation concern.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.