Plants scattered or gregarious, acrocarpous. Stems unbranched. Leaves erect-spreading, linear-lanceolate; base oblong, ± sheathing; costa narrow, delicate proximally, nearly filling acumen; laminal cell walls ± thick; basal cells long-rectangular; medial cells irregularly rhombic at shoulders; distal cells longer on distal costa. Sexual condition dioicous; male plants smaller, leaves less secund than females; perigonial and perichaetial leaves scarcely differentiated. Seta elongate. Capsule suberect, ovoid; exothecial cells elongate-rectangular; annulus revoluble; peristome diplolepidous-alternate; exostome teeth pale yellow to hyaline, narrowly lanceolate, somewhat irregular, trabeculate, pitted basally, papillose distally; endostome basal membrane low, scarcely exceeding capsule rim, hyaline to pale yellow, segments divided to base and diverging, halves of adjacent segments converging opposite exostome teeth, cilia absent. Calyptra cucullate. SELECTED REFERENCE Shaw, A. J. 1984. A reinterpretation of peristome structure in Pseudoditrichum mirabile Steere and Iwatsuki (Pseudoditrichaceae). Bryologist 87: 314-318. SELECTED REFERENCE Shaw, A. J. 1984. A reinterpretation of peristome structure in Pseudoditrichum mirabile Steere and Iwatsuki (Pseudoditrichaceae). Bryologist 87: 314-318. Plants scattered or gregarious, acrocarpous. Stems unbranched. Leaves erect-spreading, linear-lanceolate; base oblong, ± sheathing; costa narrow, delicate proximally, nearly filling acumen; laminal cell walls ± thick; basal cells long-rectangular; medial cells irregularly rhombic at shoulders; distal cells longer on distal costa. Sexual condition dioicous; male plants smaller, leaves less secund than females; perigonial and perichaetial leaves scarcely differentiated. Seta elongate. Capsule suberect, ovoid; exothecial cells elongate-rectangular; annulus revoluble; peristome diplolepidous-alternate; exostome teeth pale yellow to hyaline, narrowly lanceolate, somewhat irregular, trabeculate, pitted basally, papillose distally; endostome basal membrane low, scarcely exceeding capsule rim, hyaline to pale yellow, segments divided to base and diverging, halves of adjacent segments converging opposite exostome teeth, cilia absent. Calyptra cucullate.General Information
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