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(G); Hildago: Cerro de Tutotcpec, 6000 ft, Sharp 5031b (TENN) ; San Luis Potosi: w of 

 Xilitla. 3900 ft, Sharp 5902 (TENN). 



GUATEMALA: El Progreso: Finca Bucaral, 6200 ft, Sharp 2733, 2730 p.p. (TENN); 

 Sierra de Las Minas, 2500 m, Steyermark 29828 (F) ; Zacapa: Sierra Virgcn, 2200-2400 m, 

 Steyermark 42021 (F) ; Huehuetenango : above Macx, 2500-3000 m, Steyermark 51899 (F) ; 

 Puente Alto. 7700 ft, Sharp 4903 p.p. (TENN). 



HONDURAS: near El Achote, Yuncker0583 (DPU). 



COSTA RICA: Los Angeles de San Ramon, Brenes 14859 p.p. (F) ; Prov. Cartago: El 

 Empalma, 2400 m, Lems 5147 (NY). 



16. Lepidozia wallisiana Stephani, Spec. Hep. 3: 573. 1909; Icon. Hep., 



Lepidozia No. 86. 



Lepidozia bogotensis Stephani, Spec. Hep. 3: 570. 1909; Icon. Hep., Lepidozia No. 00. 

 Lepidozia bicalcarata Stephani, Spec. Hep. 3: 573. 1909; Icon. Hep., Lepidozia No. 43. 

 Lepidozia flavescens Stephani in Herzog, Bryophvten . . . Bolivia. Bibliot. Bot. 87: 

 226. /. 108 a, b. 1916. 



Lepidozia hetcrophylla Stephani in Herzog, Bryophvten . . . Bolivia. Bibliot. Bot. 87: 



226. 1916; Icon. Hep., Lepidozia No. 00. Nomen nudum. 

 Lepidozia capilliramea Stephani, Spec. Hop. 6: 323. 1922; Icon. Hep., Lepidozia No. 48. 

 Lepidozia caracensis Stephani, Spec. Hep. 6 : 322. 1922; Icon. Hep., Lepidozia No. 49- 



Plants of medium size, olive-green to dark green or brown, in dense tufts or 

 mats or among other bryophytes; stems to 5 cm or more long, with leaves to 

 1.2 mm broad, regularly pinnately branched, the lateral branches 2-3 mm apart, 

 0.5-1.0 cm long, often becoming flagelliform, ventral flagelliform branches infre- 

 quent. Line of leaf insertion oblique. Stem leaves distant to contiguous or 

 imbricate, asymmetric, squarrose-spreading, a little concave, to 0.48 mm long, 

 0.48-0.56 mm broad at the base; the lamina more or less orbicular, the dorsal 

 margin strongly convex from a rounded base, usually with slender teeth one to 

 several cells long, the short ventral margin with or without a tooth, obliquely 

 quadrifid to one-half their length; segments unequal, triangular from a 4- to 

 7-celled base, soon narrowed to a long acuminate uniseriate tip of four to seven 

 cells 20-27 p. or rarely a few to 36 p long, the apices of most of the segments 

 curved upward on the ventral side of the stem; cells of the base of the segments 

 quadrate, 17-22 p long and broad, the walls thickened, the cuticle smooth. Under- 

 leaves as broad as the stem, concave, quadrifid to one-half or more, the lamina 

 with or without one or more teeth on either side, the segments two to four cells 

 broad at the base, soon becoming uniseriate for five to seven cells, divergent, 

 curved and parallel to the stem; the cells to 27 /* long. Sexual branches and 

 sporophytes not seen. PI. 42. Fig. 16, a-d. 



Habitat: On logs and trees in cloud forests. 



GUATEMALA: Zacapa: slopes of Volcan Gemelos 2100-3200 m, Steyermark 43291 

 p.p. (F). 



COLOMBIA: Antioquia: Paramo de Sonson, Wallis, (type G) ; same locality and 

 collector, the type of L. bicalcarata (G) ; same locality and collector, 10,000 ft, neotype of 

 L. capilliramea (G) ; the same, ex Hb Jack (G) ; the same, as L. dendritica (G) ; [the citation 

 in Stephani, 1922, "Fretum Magellanieum, Skottsberg leg." is incorrect.] Bogota: San 

 Cristobal, Apollinaire, the type of L. bogotensis (G). 



VENEZUELA: Amazonas; Cerro Duida, 305-1095 m, Steyermark 57985 p.p. (F). 

 Caracas, 4500 ft, Funck & Schlim 350 bis, the type of L. caracensis (G) ; Cerro Huaohamacari, 

 Maguire, Cowan & Wurdack 29907 (NY); Bolivar: Sarven-tepui, Wurdack 34331 (NY); 

 Quebrada O-paru-ma, 1065-1220 m, Steyermark 00440, 00448 p.p. (F) ; Lara: slopes of 

 Palojosco 2375-2530 m, Steyermark 55240 (F) ; Chimanta, Massif, above valley of Rio Tirica, 

 1000-1700 m, Steyermark 76441 (NY); Sucre, Cerro Patao, Steyermark & Agrostini 91003, 

 91373 (VEN). 



