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

Stems


Dorsal view vegetative portion of stem.  Erect, imbricate, antically secund leaves forming a dorsal keel.
 

    
Habit, showing erect appices and rhizoids.
 

    
Vegetative stem, dorsal view (left).  Leaves below gynoecium, oblique dorsal view (right).
 

    
Dorsal leaf insertion (left).  Note short decurrency forming recurved margin.  Leaves removed (right).
 

    
Lateral leaf insertion, leaf removed (left).  Ventral leaf insertion (right).
 

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




This page is an image-augmented mirror of the official Bryophyte Flora of North America electronic publication page for Cryptocolea.

Copyright 2001, Bryophyte Flora of North America
All linked photographic images copyright 2001, Steven L. Jessup