Plaubelia sprengelii var. sprengelii

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 27. Treatment on page 583.

Leaves apiculate; costa percurrent to excurrent; adaxial distal laminal cells mammillose, smooth on both surfaces.


Phenology: Capsules mature winter (late Dec, Feb) to spring.
Habitat: Shaded or exposed moist limestone, quarries, brick mortar, stream banks
Elevation: low elevations

Distribution

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Fla., Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America (Brazil, Venezuela).

Discussion

The citation for Georgia by H. A. Crum and L. E. Anderson (1981) may have been based on a specimen here redetermined as Hyophila involuta (Anderson & Crum 13658, CANM, DUKE).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
Patricia M. Eckel +
(Schwägrichen) R. H. Zander +
Barbula sprengelii +
Fla. +, Mexico +, West Indies +, Central America +, South America (Brazil +  and Venezuela). +
low elevations +
Shaded or exposed moist limestone, quarries, brick mortar, stream banks +
Capsules mature winter (late Dec, Feb) to spring. +
Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. +
Desmatodon garberi +  and Neohyophila sprengelii +
Plaubelia sprengelii var. sprengelii +
Plaubelia sprengelii +
variety +