Thuidium schistocalyx (Müll. Hal.) Mitt.
date: label: Collection Date
content: 7 Jan 1939
name: label: Biogeographical Region
content: 80 - Central America
label: Collector
content: B. Willis
label: Microhabitat Description
content: On tree
notes: label: Notes
content: Transcribed from the original label.
label: Notes
content: Transcribed from paperwork found with the specimen: Plant: Second branching, neither opposite or alternating. Branches have a silver shine to them. Hitches on to tree with clumps of red, hairy roots. Stem green (branch stem). Leaves: general appearance branch stem leaves + other leaves identical. Leaf often as #26. Complanate. When dry not transparent. Cost single + very strong. Subcurrent about middle of leaf. Serrated no - but even edge. Margin no. Cells: general shape roundish + not transparent. Dimensions - 8 m by 8 m. Papillose yes - usual 3 or 4 to a cell + I would have to say over cell middle. Alar cells same. Base cells same. No paraphylla. Sporophyte: Seta, length 1 inch. Color redish. Pleurocarpous scarce. Rough. Capsule: color tan. Length: width dimensions 2.5:1. Papillose yes. Wrinkled when dry no. Mouth olbiqua majority yes + 1/2 constricted behind mouth. Calyptra: light green + split down one side. Operculum: beak length little more then width. Peristome: double. No. of teeth 16. First - short , thick + red. Second - long then, + white + alternating with first transversally barred.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Near Raymond Shannon Trail, Canal Zone, Panamá Oeste, Panama, Central America - Neotropics
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content: Botany
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content: Bryophytes and Lichens
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Thuidium schistocalyx (Müll. Hal.) Mitt.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Botany Dept.
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Plantae Bryophyta Bryopsida Hypnales Thuidiaceae