Flabellidium spinosum

Flabellidium spinosum is an extinct species of the class of mosses. She was endemic in Bolivia and is the only species of the genus Flabellidium.

Features

Flabellidium spinosum was a pleurokarpes, epiphytic growing on tree roots moss with dirty - green to yellowish- green leaves. The erect stems were about 1 cm high, halbgefiedert and more or less leafy. The egg-shaped leaflets measured 0.7 x 0.35 mm. They were scaly and slightly arched getrockenen state. The abaxial serrated and emerging as a mandrel midrib (costa) reached about three quarters of the blade length. Flabellidium spinosum was probably dioecious. There are no known sporophytes. The bald, pale yellow spore capsule cap was 1.8 mm long. The reddish stem capsule was smooth. The capsules were underdeveloped.

Status

Flabellidium is spinosum only from the type material known that the German botanist and Bryologe Theodor Herzog in the Cordillera Quimsa Cruz ( Tres Cruces) had discovered height near Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia in a mountain forest at about 1400 m 1911. The forest in the type locality and the surrounding area was cleared and converted the region into agricultural land. On subsequent expeditions the type could not be rediscovered and is now considered most likely extinct.