Philonotis krausei Brotherus 1904

Philonotis krausei

Philonotis krausei (C. Müll.) Broth., Nat. Pfl. 1 (3):648, 1904.

Bartramia krausei C. Müll., Linnaea 38:595, 1874. [Original material: Valdivia, Chile, coll. Krause, 1874.]

Philonotis krauseana Broth. in Skottsb., Nat. Hist. Juan Fernandez 2:426, 1924, nom. illeg.

Slender, often densely tufted, yellowish green plants with sparsely branching stems to 3 cm high, reddish radiculose below. Leaves erect-spreading to slightly secund, scarcely changed when dry, mostly 1.3 mm long, 0.4 mm wide, lanceolate from a broadly ovate base, slenderly acuminate; margins narrowly recurved with 2–3 rows of serrations; costa stout, 40 μm wide at base, excurrent into serrate arista, serrate abaxially toward tip; cells of upper lamina narrowly rectangular, ca. 7 μm wide, 25–30 μm long; inner basal cells larger, to 12 μm wide, some above base to 60 μm long, toward lower margin narrower, a few subquadrate cells ca. 15 × 20 μm in basal angle; cells of lamina with papilla at distal end on adaxial surface and at lower end abaxially. Dioicous. Perigonia gemmiform. Setae 30 mm long, reddish. Capsule oblique, rather ovoid; urn 2.5–3.0 mm long, more ribbed when dry. Spores elliptical, ca. 22 μm long, with large papillae.

MAS AFUERA: Below summit of Los Innocentes, ca. 4000 ft, H. & E. 498B, 499B.

The species is rather common in southern Chile and Argentina and has been reported from both Mas Afuera and Mas a Tierra.

Philonotis krausei là một loài rêu trong họ Bartramiaceae. Loài này được Müll. Hal. Broth. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1904.