Homalia Brid.

Homalia moss (en)

Genus

Bryophytes > Hypnales > Neckeraceae

Characteristics

Plants medium-sized, shelf-forming, green to yellowish green, shiny. Stems creeping, sparsely to irregularly branched; paraphyllia absent. Secondary stem and branch leaves erect-spreading, oblong-ovate to oblong-obovate, asymmetric, flat; margins entire proximally, serrulate to serrate at apex, teeth not recurved; apex rounded, obtuse, or obtuse-apiculate; costa single [double, very short]; laminal cells rounded-hexagonal to linear, walls porose or not. Sexual condition autoicous [synoicous or dioicous]; ; perichaetial inner leaves ovate [broadly lanceolate]. Seta 1-1.5[-2] cm. Capsule oblong-cylindric [oblong-ovoid]; exostome teeth lanceolate, densely cross striate and papillose basally, vertically papillose and hyaline distally; endostome basal membrane well developed, segments smooth proximally, papillose distally. Spores 11-14[-16] µm.
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