Bryophyte Flora of North America

Provisionally Published Treatments of Hepaticae

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Jungermanniaceae -- Cryptocolea Schuster
Steven L. Jessup
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Cryptocolea imbricata R. M. Schuster

Leaves


Leaf margins involute,  decolorous in part.
 


Median leaf cells with small and inconspicuous trigones.
 

    
Subapical leaves recurved (left).  Leaves subtending gynoecium squarrose recurved ~ reflexed (right).
 


Apical leaves valvate.
 

    
Leaves imbricate (left), centrally concave (right).
 

    
Lateral leaf, abaxial view (left).  Lateral leaf, adaxial view (right).  Note central concavity (out of focus).
 

    
Leaves pellucid green ~ yellow brown (left), suffused with chestnut brown, especially in distal lamina (right).
 
 

Dorsal view of branches subtending gynoecium (left).  Lateral view of branch (right).




This page of images augments the official Bryophyte Flora of North America electronic publication page for Cryptocolea

 
All linked photographic images copyright 2001, Steven L. Jessup