Groutiella chimborazensis (Spruce ex Mitt.) Florsch.

Yu, Ning-Ning & Jia, Yu, 2023, A world revisionary study of the genus Groutiella Steere (Orthotrichaceae, Bryopsida), Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (7), pp. 161-182 : 166-170

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8169535
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scientific name	Groutiella chimborazensis (Spruce ex Mitt.) Florsch.
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Groutiella chimborazensis (Spruce ex Mitt.) Florsch. View in CoL View at ENA

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Flora of Suriname 4: 215 ( Florschütz-de 1964).

SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — Belize. Cayo, Southern Maya Mountains, Allen 15133 (MO) .

Bolivia. Santa Cruz, Velasco, Fuentes 1049 ( MO).

Brazil. Rondônia, Serra dos Pacaás Novos, Reese 13734A ( MO); Pará, Rio Jamanxím, Reese 16683 ( MO).

Colombia. Magdalena, Santa Marta Municipio, Churchill & Linares 18411 ( MO).

Costa Rica. San José, Cordillera Talamanca, Holz CR 99-0960 ( MO) ; Puntarenas, Crosby 2499B ( MO) ; Heredia, Volcan Barba, Crosby 9934 ( MO) ; Chm-cewh? forch-Ou Barba, 1890, Louduz s.n. ( NSW).

Ecuador. Andes Quitenses, ad radices occidentalis montis Chimborazo (3500 ped.), Spruce n. 110 (syn-, NY) ; Cotopaxi, Rio Pilaló, L. Holm-Nielsen et al. 3144 ( MO).

Guatemala. Laguna del Pino, Bernoulli & Cario 47 (syntype of Macromitrium semimarginatum, HBG ) ; Jalapa, Jalapa, Clover 10206 ( MO).

Guyana. Rupununi, Kanuku Mts, Maas & Westra 3880 ( MO).

Honduras. Lempira, Gracias, Allen 11845 ( MO).

Mexico. Jalisco, Rio Blanco, Pringle 10560 (isotype of G. undosa, MO ) ; Michoacán, Uruapan Municipio, Landry 23.6 ( MO) ; Querétaro, Landry 15.6 ( MO) ; San Luis Potosi, Antiguo Morelos, R.A. Pursell 5422 ( MO) ; Sinaloa, Panuco, Pursell s.n. ( MO) ; Tamaulipas, Rancho del Cielo, M.G. Manuel 169 ( MO).

Nicaragua. Matagalpa, Esquipulas, Stevens 11909 ( MO).

Panama. Chiriquí, Boquete, Crosby 3972 ( MO) ; Croat 67935 ( MO) ; Cerro Horqueta, D’Arcy 6481 ( MO).

DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. — The tropical region of America, north to Mexico, south to Bolivia (Santa Cruz). On bark of tree trunks and upper branches, rarely on soil; 880-2600 m.

DESCRIPTION

For description, see Grout 1946; Bartram 1949; Vitt 1994; Churchill & Linares 1995; Allen 2002.

COMMENTS

The leaves of G. chimborazensis are lanceolate, and the costa are excurrent, end below or in the apex. There is a variation in the apex and lamina. The apex could be acute to sharply acuminate, which can be found in one specimen.The lamina is usually plane, but also can be undulate.

G. macrorrhyncha is very similar to G. chimborazensis in having lanceolate leaves. It differs from G. chimborazensis in having a stoutly excurrent costa.