Lindmania riparia L.B.Sm., Steyerm. & H.Rob.
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Comments:
- The stipe of the type collection (Steyermark 93895, isotype, NY) is heavily damaged by insects, which may have affected the development of the inflorescence. Vegetatively, this species resembles Lindmania brachyphylla and may be conspecific with it.
Fromprotologue 1986
Leaf anatomy. Vascular bundles adaxially deeply recessed in but not covered by chlorenchyma, abaxially narrowly covered by chlorenchyma; water storage cells adaxially 3-4-stratose, abaxially ca. 3-stratose in distinct canals; subepidermal cells in single subdistinct layers with slightly thickened walls; substomatal pores not occluded, oval to rounded with slightly thickened walls; abaxially with scales minute, irregularly peltate or shortly strap-shaped, with cells transversely oblong.
The leaf cross-section is like that seen in Lindmania in L. tillandsioides, L. brachyphylla, and the newly described L. sessilis. Both the key and the anatomy indicate closest relationship to L. tillandsioides. In spite of the close proximity in the key, L. stenophylla lacks the chlorenchyma abaxial to the vascular bundles, and it is probably not closely related.
Known only from the type. —See Steyermark, Holst et al. 1989
