2. Tortella humilis (Hedw.) Jenn. 纽藓 niu xian
Man. Mosses W. Pennsylvania 96: 13. 1913. Trichostomum humile (Hedw.) Mach., Cat. Descr. Briol. Portug. 50. 1919. Barbula humilis Hedw., Sp. Musc. Frond. 116, pl. 25, f. 1–4. 1801. Type. USA: Pennsylvania.
Mollia caespitosa (Schwägr.) Broth., Acta Soc. Sci. Fenn. 19(5): 14. 1891. Tortella caespitosa (Schwägr.) Limpr., Laubm. Deutschl. 1: 600. 1888. Tortula caespitosa (Schwägr.) Hook. & Grev. in Brewst., Edinburgh J. Sci. 1: 296. 1824. Barbula caespitosa Schwägr., Sp. Musc. Frond., Suppl. 1, 1: 120, f. 31. 1811.
Plants small, ca. 1 cm high, yellowish green, in loose tufts. Stems erect, usually simple. Leaves strongly crisped when dry, erect-spreading or reflexed when moist, ligulate to narrowly oblong, often channeled above, narrowly acute or bluntly apiculate, somewhat sheathing at base; margins plane or somewhat undulate or narrowly incurved, entire to weakly crenulate with projecting papillae; costa percurrent or ending just below the apex; upper leaf cells quadrate to hexagonal, unistratose, pluripapillose; basal cells often sharply differentiated, rectangular, smooth, forming a V-shaped base. Autoicous. Sporophytes not seen.