Bryoerythrophyllum Chen, Hedwigia 80: 4. 1941.
Plants small to medium-sized, in
tufts, green above, red to reddish brown below. Stems irregularly branched,
sparsely radiculose, sclerodermis and central strand present. Leaves
erect, usually sheathing at base, twisted, appressed-incurved when dry,
erect-spreading to spreading when wet, lingulate, ovate, ovate-triangular,
ovate-lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, lanceolate; acute to obtuse; margins
recurved below, plane or recurved above, entire or irregularly dentate above,
bordered or unbordered; costa subpercurrent, percurrent or excurrent as a
sharp, smooth apiculus, guide cells and two stereid bands present, ventral
epidermal layer usually differentiated; upper cells firm-walled, oblate to
irregularly quadrate or rounded-hexagonal, pluripapillose by thick, c-shaped
papillae, basal cells quadrate, short- or long-rectangular, smooth or
papillose, thick- or thin-walled, alar cells not differentiated. Dioicous,
synoicous, or paroicous. Inflorescences terminal, perichaetial leaves
sheathing. Setae elongate. Capsules cylindric; opercula short-conic to
rostrate; annuli usually well-developed; peristome none, rudimentary, or
consisting of 16, or 32, usually short and erect, sometimes long and spirally
twisted teeth, basal membrane short or absent. Calyptrae cucullate, smooth.