Philonotis scabrifolia Braithwaite 1893

Philonotis scabrifolia

Philonotis scabrifolia (Hook. f. & Wils.) Braithw., Brit. Moss Fl. 2:215, 1893.

Hypnum scabrifolium Hook. f. & Wils., London J. Bot. 3:552, 1844. [Original material: Lord Auckland Isl., coll. J. D. Hooker, 1839–1843.]

Bartramia appressa Hook. f. & Wils., Fl. Nov. Zel. 2:89, 1854. [Original material: Falls of Waitangi, Bay of Islands, North Island, New Zealand, coll. J. D. Hooker, 1839–1843.]

Bartramia pusilla Sull., Kew J. Bot. 2:316, 1850, hom. illeg. [Original material: Vic. Orange Harbor, Tierra del Fuego, coll. Wilkes Exp., 1838–1842.]

Bartramia hymenodon C. Müll., Bot. Zeit. 17:220, 1859. [Original material: Olifantshoek, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, coll. Ecklon.]

Bartramia exigua Sull. in Wilkes, U.S. Expl. Exp. 11, 8C, 1859, nom. nov.

Bartramia remotifolia Hook f. & Wils., Fl. Tasman. 2:193, 1859. [Original material: Gullies Road, Brown’s River, Tasmania, coll. Oldfield.]

Bartramia catenulata Hampe, Linnaea 30:631, 1860. [Original material: Mt. Cobboras, 6000 ft, Australia, coll. F. Müller.]

Bartramia willii C. Müll, in Neum., Deutsch. Exp. Int. Polarforsch. 2:306, 1890. [Original material: High plateau, South Georgia, coll. Will, 1882–1883.]

Bartramia ventanae C. Müll., Hedwigia 36:98, 1897. [Original material: Sierra Ventana, Patagonia, Argentina, coll. G. Lorentz, Feb. 1881.]

Bartramia pinnulata C. Müll., Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser., 4:44, 1897. [Original material: Near Choquecamata, Cochabamba, Bolivia, coll. P. Germain, 1889.]

Slender, whitish to pale green plants 1.0–2.0 cm high, almost always dendroid with subforal innovations on both male and female plants, reddish radiculose below. Leaves erect-spreading, more appressed when dry; stem leaves mostly 1 mm long, 0.5 mm wide, lanceolate from a broadly ovate base, slenderly acuminate; branch leaves ca. 0.4 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, lanceolate; margins of stem leaves in lower part prominently crenulate with pairs of projecting cell ends, in upper part narrowly recurved; margins of branch leaves erect; costae 40 μm wide at base, percurrent or excurrent into serrulate arista, serrulate abaxially toward tip; lamina cells mostly subquadrate to short-rectangular, 8–10 μm wide, 8–20 μm long, with large central papillae on both surfaces; inner basal cells to 30 μm long. Dioicous. Perigonia disciform. Setae 1.0–2.5 cm long, reddish. Capsule urn 2–3 mm long, oval-oblong, rather oblique, more ribbed and sometimes curved when dry. Spores elliptical, ca. 25 μm long, with large papillae.

MAS AFUERA: Q. Casas, H. & E. 155, 571; near Camp Correspondencia, ca. 3800 ft, H. & E. 422A, 738b; Los Innocentes, below summit, ca. 4000 ft, H. & E. 499B, 577.

The species is known from South Africa, Marion and Kerguelen Islands, East Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Tristan da Cunha, and in the area of southern South America north to Colombia and Mexico. The species has been reported from both Mas Afuera and Mas a Tierra.