Plants in mats to deep wefts, wide-spreading, green, stramineous, or yellow-brown when dry, bright green when moist. Secondary stems 10-20 cm, irregularly pinnate, lateral branches subequal, to 3 cm, sometimes pendent and distally flagelliform, occasionally bearing smaller (less than 5 mm) branchlets. Stem leaves erectopatent when dry, erect-spreading when moist, broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate; margins serrulate-denticulate in apex; costa 2-fid distally, supplementary costae well developed, usually 2 or 3 on each side of main costa base, length more than 6 cells; laminal cell walls pitted throughout; medial cells 24-36 × 5-6 µm. Branch leaves similar. Perichaetial leaves short deltoid-apiculate to long gladiate-cuspidate and sheathing, basal laminal cells rectangular, 4-5:1, walls thin, medial cells flexuous-elongate, to 10:1. Seta 0.8-1.5 cm. Capsule erect-symmetric, brown to yellow-brown, oblong-ovoid, 4-5 mm. Spores 20-30 µm. 1. Antitrichia curtipendula (Hedw.) Brid. 逆毛藓 ni mao xian Muscol. Recent. Suppl. 4: 136. 1819. Leucodon curtipendulus (Hedw.) T. Jensen, Bryol. Danic. 154. 1856. Haptymenium curtipendulum (Hedw.) Fürnr., Flora 10(2): Beil. 1: 81. 1827. Anomodon curtipendulus (Hedw.) Hook. & Taylor, Muscol. Brit. 2: 79. 1818. Hypnum curtipendulum (Hedw.) With., Syst. Arr. Brit. Pl., ed. 4, 3: 846. 1801. Neckera curtipendula Timm ex Hedw. Sp. Musc. Frond. 209. 1801. Type: Europe. Antitrichia formosana Nog., J. Sci. Hiroshima Univ., Ser. B, Div. 2, Bot. 3: 39, f. 5. 1937. Type: China. Taiwan, Taityu, Noguchi 6440. Plants slender, elongate, yellowish green. Main stems pendulous, to 20 cm long, irregularly branched. Leaves loosely imbricate when dry, erect-spreading when moist, ovate-lanceolate, 2–3 mm long, concave, slightly decurrent at the base, slenderly long acuminate at the apex; margins partly recurved, entire below, dentate above, often with recurved teeth; costae single, reaching the upper part of leaves, sometimes branched at the base of costa; leaf cells thick-walled, porose; median and upper cells linear-rhomboidal 20–30 µm long; alar cells consisting of a large group of elliptical, oblate-oval cells; cells at insertion colored. Inner perichaetial leaves sheathing at the base, ecostate. Setae 7–12 mm long, orange-yellow; capsules oblong-ovoid, dark brown; peristome teeth the same as described in the genus. Spores 20–33 µm in diameter, densely papillose. Plants in mats to deep wefts, wide-spreading, green, stramineous, or yellow-brown when dry, bright green when moist. Secondary stems 10-20 cm, irregularly pinnate, lateral branches subequal, to 3 cm, sometimes pendent and distally flagelliform, occasionally bearing smaller (less than 5 mm) branchlets. Stem leaves erectopatent when dry, erect-spreading when moist, broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate; margins serrulate-denticulate in apex; costa 2-fid distally, supplementary costae well developed, usually 2 or 3 on each side of main costa base, length more than 6 cells; laminal cell walls pitted throughout; medial cells 24-36 × 5-6 µm. Branch leaves similar. Perichaetial leaves short deltoid-apiculate to long gladiate-cuspidate and sheathing, basal laminal cells rectangular, 4-5:1, walls thin, medial cells flexuous-elongate, to 10:1. Seta 0.8-1.5 cm. Capsule erect-symmetric, brown to yellow-brown, oblong-ovoid, 4-5 mm. Spores 20-30 µm. 1. Antitrichia curtipendula (Hedw.) Brid. 逆毛藓 ni mao xian Muscol. Recent. Suppl. 4: 136. 1819. Leucodon curtipendulus (Hedw.) T. Jensen, Bryol. Danic. 154. 1856. Haptymenium curtipendulum (Hedw.) Fürnr., Flora 10(2): Beil. 1: 81. 1827. Anomodon curtipendulus (Hedw.) Hook. & Taylor, Muscol. Brit. 2: 79. 1818. Hypnum curtipendulum (Hedw.) With., Syst. Arr. Brit. Pl., ed. 4, 3: 846. 1801. Neckera curtipendula Timm ex Hedw. Sp. Musc. Frond. 209. 1801. Type: Europe. Antitrichia formosana Nog., J. Sci. Hiroshima Univ., Ser. B, Div. 2, Bot. 3: 39, f. 5. 1937. Type: China. Taiwan, Taityu, Noguchi 6440. Plants slender, elongate, yellowish green. Main stems pendulous, to 20 cm long, irregularly branched. Leaves loosely imbricate when dry, erect-spreading when moist, ovate-lanceolate, 2–3 mm long, concave, slightly decurrent at the base, slenderly long acuminate at the apex; margins partly recurved, entire below, dentate above, often with recurved teeth; costae single, reaching the upper part of leaves, sometimes branched at the base of costa; leaf cells thick-walled, porose; median and upper cells linear-rhomboidal 20–30 µm long; alar cells consisting of a large group of elliptical, oblate-oval cells; cells at insertion colored. Inner perichaetial leaves sheathing at the base, ecostate. Setae 7–12 mm long, orange-yellow; capsules oblong-ovoid, dark brown; peristome teeth the same as described in the genus. Spores 20–33 µm in diameter, densely papillose.General Information
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