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BREUTELIA
Moss (
I
)
Family:
BARTRAMIACEAE
Named after Johann Christian Breutel (1788-1875)**. A bishop of the Moravian church and collector of mostly mosses from the West Indies and South Africa.
(
Ch
)
Breutelia tabularis
(
La
)
Location: (
K
)
tabula, = a board, plank;
-alis, -aris, = belonging or pertaining to, resembling, provided with.
tabularis, = flattened horizontally, plate like, (in geographical epithets) growing on Table Mountain, South Africa)
(
ld
,
BL
)