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!Bartramia mathewsii Mitt.

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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 10/4/2009)

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Project Data (Last Modified On 10/4/2009)

EcoRegions: Páramo, Puna, Montane Forest

elevation: 1000-1500, 1500-2000, 2000-2500, 2500-3000, 3000-3500, 3500-4000, 4000-4500, 4500-5000

substrate: soil, rocks

frequency: common

Notes (Last Modified On 10/4/2009)

Notes:

Ecology: Montane forest to páramo and humid puna; in exposed habits, less frequent in shaded sites, on soil, rocks, rarely epiphytic. Elevation: 1300-4850 m (Venezuela: 3800 m, Colombia: 3300-4360 m, Ecuador: 1300-4100 m, Peru: 2000-4400 m, Bolivia: 1400-4850 m). Distribution: Tropical Andes, southeast Brazil.

This can be recognized as B. mathewsii subsp. mathewsii; see B. mathewsii subsp. synoica entered separately. Subspecies mathewsii is distinguished by dioicous sexual condition and longer seta, more than 4 mm long, whereas subspecies synoica is synoicous and seta shorter than 4 mm.

Specimens: VENEZUELA. Barinas: Griffin & Diaz M. PV-148 (MO); Mérida: Griffin et al. 1172 (MO). COLOMBIA. Caldas: Churchill et al. 16317 (HUA, NY); Cundinamarca: Cleef & Jaramillo M. 4033 (U), Linares C. & Churchill 3908 (COL, NY). ECUADOR. Cotopaxi: Crosby 10678 (MO); Napo: Churchill & Sastre-D. J. 13591 (MO). PERU. Huánuco: Bryan 237 (MO); Junín: P.& E. Hegewald 5461 (MO). BOLIVIA. Cochabamba: Churchill et al. 22163 (BOLV, MO, USZ); La Paz: Lewis 87445 (MO).