2. Funaria discelioides C. Müll. 直蒴葫芦藓 zhi-shuo hu-lu xian
Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital., n.s., 4: 245. 1897. Type. China: Shaanxi (Schen-si), Pou-o-li, Don Joh. Tsan, 7 March 1895, Giraldii s.n.
Plants small, in loose tufts. Stems simple, erect, 3–5 mm long. Leaves flexuous or curled when dry, erect-spreading when moist, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 0.8–1.0 mm × 0.3–0.4 mm, gradually acuminate into a piliferous, often reflexed apex; margins entire; costa percurrent or shortly excurrent; leaf cells thin-walled, upper cells irregularly rectangular or broadly rhomboidal, 40–45 µm × 20–22 µm; basal cells elongate, narrowly rectangular, 140–150 µm × 26–30 µm. Autoicous. Setae slender, yellowish red, 5–7 mm long; capsules suberect, asymmetric, obliquely pyriform, 2–3 mm × 1.0–1.2 mm, apophyses somewhat differentiated, mouth wide, ca. 0.7 mm in diameter; opercula small, obtusely conic; annuli none; peristome double. Calyptrae somewhat hairy. Spores not seen.