Funaria bergiana (Hornsch.) Broth.

Plants small, gregarious, yellow-green to light green; terricolous. Stems 2-3 mm long. Leaves crowded above, weakly contorted and appressed dry, widespreading wet; elliptical to obovate, (1.5-)2.0-2.5 mm long; apex mucronate to apiculate, apiculus to 0.5 mm long, with linear, thickened cells, rarely absent on some leaves; base scarcely differentiated to oblong; margins plane, entire. Costa ending below apex; in section round, guide cells 2, exposed ventrally, dorsal stereid band weak, 2-3 cells thick, cells reddish, dorsal surface cells similar to guide cells. Laminal cells rectangular, rhomboidal and hexagonal; basal cells rectangular. Seta 4-6 mm long, yellowish; capsule erect, pyriform, 1.2-1.5 mm long, yellowish brown, neck differentiated; exothecial cells rectangular, incrassate, sometimes strongly so, with 4-6 rows of quadrate to transversely rectangular cells at mouth; stomata present on neck; peristome single, fragile, teeth narrowly triangular, 0.17 mm long, striate below, papillose at apex, reddish yellow; operculum planoconvex, cells not twisted; spores rounded, 25-30 µm, yellowish brown, weakly papillose.