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takakia

Habit Plants with cinnamon-like odor when dry; distal part of leafy shoots not caducous.
Stems

in cross section usually with 1 layer of thicker walled epidermal cells; stoloniferous stems well developed and extensive above surface of substrate.

Leaves

typically of 2 segments, not or only occasionally connate at base, some solitary, occasionally of 3–4 segments, sometimes caducous, in cross section of thin-walled cells, in distal part of segment with single large central cell and 7–10 smaller outer cells, these 30–45 × 20–25 µm, irregularly arranged.

Slime

hairs thin-walled.

Sporophytes

unknown.

Takakia lepidozioides

Habitat Uncommon on moist humus, in usually somewhat shaded habitats, over rocks or on banks, rock crevices, especially near waterfalls, but also on peaty banks in wetland slopes, humid coastal to subalpine and alpine
Elevation low to moderate elevations (0-1000 m) (low to moderate elevations (0-3300 ft))
Distribution
from FNA
AK; BC; Asia (Borneo, Japan, Nepal, Taiwan)
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Discussion

Takakia lepidozioides grows most frequently in highly humid or misty sites, often deeply shaded. Algae and cyanobacteria are frequent associates. The shoots are often lax, and extensive rhizomatous shoots are conspicuous.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 27, p. 43.
Parent taxa Takakiaceae > Takakia
Sibling taxa
T. ceratophylla
Name authority S. Hattori & Inoue: J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 19: 137, figs. 1–24. (1958)
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