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LEAFY HEPATICAE OF LATIN AMERICA — PART II 



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19. Lepidozia armata Stephani, Spec. Hep. 3: 567. 1909; Icon. Hep., 



Lepidozia No. 22. 



Lepidozia karstenii Stephani, Spec. Hep. 3: 576. 1909; Icon. Hep., Lepidozia No. 64. 

 Lepidozia karstenii var. standlcyi Hcrzog, Revue Bryol. Lichcnol. 11: 22. 1938 [1939]. 



Plants of medium or large size, in dense, pale yellowish-green, deep green or 

 brown tufts or mats; stems prostrate or ascending to erect, to 10 cm or more long, 



1 mm or more wide, densely bi- or tripinnatc; lateral branches 1-2 mm apart, to 



2 cm long, usually becoming attenuate-flagelliform with decurved tips, ventral 

 flagelliform branches occasional. Line of leaf insertion curved around the stem, 

 slightly oblique, the upper end often slightly recurved. Stem leaves approximate 

 to imbricate, to 0.65 mm long, 0.5 mm wide at the base, asymmetric and broadly 

 orbicular to subquadrate, divided to one-half their length or more into four to 

 six unequal, narrowly lanceolate to broadly triangular segments which may be 

 ciliate or divided, the apex a row of one to six cells, 18-27 /x long, the dorsal side 

 of the lamina scmicordate and strongly convex, both margins often incised or 

 toothed ; leaf cells at the base of the segments 18 p. or less, quadrate to rectangular, 

 the walls thickened, the cuticle smooth. Underleaves as broad or broader than 

 the stem, quadrate to orbicular, divided to one-half or more into four or more 

 narrow, triangular segments, ending in a 2- to 4-cellcd tip, the segments and 

 margin of the lamina with few to many cilia or teeth. Sexual branches and 

 perianths not seen. PI. 42. Fig. 19, a-c. 



Habitat: Trunks of trees, rocks and soil in forests. 



JAMAICA: Hardwar Gap. 4000 ft, Baxter 5, 9, p.p., 26 (KANU) ; w slope of Blue 

 Mountain Peak, Proctor 736; Blue Mountain, Orcutt 8162 (BM, US), liehder (G) ; Fairy 

 Glade, M. Fan 529 (IJ), Welch 17S16 (DPU) ; Morces Gap, 4900 ft, Harris 10025 (NY), 

 Harris 10028 (G) ; s.l., Bbrgensen (C) ; Greenwich Road, Welch 1783/, (DPU) ; s.l., Andnts 

 (BM) ; St. Andrews, Webster 4060, 4969 (MICH). 



MEXICO: Cafetal, Karsten 1894, the type of L. karstenii (G) ; Hildago, Sharp 4014 

 (TENN); Oaxaca, Santos 3/,98 (Hb. Fulford) ; Chiapas: n of Mapastepec, Sharp 4603 

 (TENN). 



GUATEMALA: Alta Verapaz: near Tactic, 1400-1500 m, Standlcy 90413 (F) ; Cerro 

 Chiblac, 1200-2000 m, Steyermark 49172D (F) ; Zacapa: summit Sierra de las Minas, 2500 m, 

 Stcyermark 29898 (F) ; upper Rio Sitio Nuevo, Steyermark 43202 (F) ; Huehuetenango : n of 

 Barillos, Steyermark 48796 (F) ; without locality, Tiirckhcim 5581 (NY); Baja Verapaz, 

 Sharp 5172 (TENN). 



HONDURAS: Comayagua: near Siguatepeque, 10S0-1400 m. Standley 56194 p.p. (F). 



COSTA RICA: S. Jose: Las Nubes, 1500-1600 m, Standlcy 38735, Vcrdoorn, Hep. 

 Select. & Crit. 375, the type of L. karstenii var. slandleyi (isotypes BR, C, F) ; s.l., Gutierrez 

 B, 186 (F); si, Brenes 11207, 11689 (F) ; San Ramon: La Palma, Brcnes 16214 (F) ; Los 

 Angeles de San Ramon, Brenes 16262 (F) ; El Silencio de San Ramon, Brenes 17117 p.p. 

 (F); Cartago: Santa Clara, Torres 220 p.p., 23/, (F) ; road near Volcan Barba, 1600-1950 m, 

 Maxon & Harvey 8470a (US); s.l., Motclay, (G) ; Cerro de la Carpintera, Little 5579 (Hb 

 Little); sierra de Talamanca s of Cartago, 7238 ft, Little 5602 (Hb Little); Limon: La 

 Asuncion, Rio Banana, Gutierrez 186 p.p., 187 p.p., 200 p.p. (F) ; La Palma, 1469 m, 

 Tonduz (G-11449). 



PANAMA: s.l., Fr. Helion (NY) ; Chirique, Fr. Helion (G). 



VENEZUELA: Merida, Moritz 71, ex Hb Berol. (type G); s.l., Moritz, ex Hb 

 Bescherelle, as L. truncatella var. 7 (G-66) ; s.l., Moritz, Hb Montagne (PC): Caracas, 

 without collector, no. 1518 (G-11273). 



Additional reports include Costa Rica (Herzog, 1938a) and Bolivia (Miiller, 1955). 



20. Lepidozia peruviensis Stephani, Spec. Hep. 3: 575. 1909; Icon. Hep., 



Lepidozia No. 74. 



Lepidozia caespitosa var. Spruce ms. Hep. Sprue. 



Lepidozia quitensis Stephani, Spec. Hep. 3: 569. 1909; Icon. Hep., Lepidozia No. 77. 



