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Published In: Corollarium Bryologiae Europaeae 22. 1856. (Coroll. Bryol. Eur.) Name publication detail
 

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Discussion: The genera in this family are gametophytically diverse, but all possess the same distinctive "double" peristome which consists of an "endostome" (with a lightly thickened ventral surface and strongly thickened dorsal trabeculae) and an "exostome" that either adheres to the margins of the teeth as a thin membrane or occurs as a prostome at the base of the teeth (Edwards 1979).

 

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Plants small, gregarious or tufted, erect, simple or sparsely and irregularly branched, not tomentose. Leaves subulate-acuminate from a narrow base; costa single, strong, excurrent or percurrent; cells short above, smooth, alar cells well-developed or not differentiated. Dioicous or autoicous. Setae erect or curved-cygneous; capsules erect, stomata present; annuli large, compound or simple; opercula rostrate, straight or oblique; peristome teeth absent or single, 16, truncate or elongate, entire or split at the tip. Calyptrae mitrate or cucullate.
 

 

 
 
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