Leptohymenium Schwägr.

Leptohymenium moss (en)

Genus

Bryophytes > Hypnales > Hylocomiaceae

Characteristics

Stems creeping, 1 mm wide across leafy stem, monopodial or sympodial, freely and irregularly branched; paraphyllia absent. Stem leaves loosely erect, heteromallous, not falcate-secund, not crowded, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, sometimes plicate, not rugose, 0.7-1.6 mm; base narrowly decurrent; margins nearly entire proximally, serrulate distally; apex acute to acuminate; costa double, 1/4-1/2 leaf length; alar cells differentiated; laminal cells scattered-prorulate. Branch leaves ovate to elliptic-lanceolate. [Capsule erect; operculum long-conic or obliquely rostrate; exostome teeth smooth proximally; endostome segments not perforate].
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