Fissidentaceae

Diagnosis: Plants medium-sized, to ca. 15 mm tall. Leaves flaccid, 4-5.5 x 0.5-0.75 mm, acute to obtuse-apiculate, vaginant laminae ± equal; margins often serrulate above, entire below, limbate on all laminae with limbidia confluent at leaf apex, 3-4 stratose; costa subpercurrent to percurrent; cells quadrate to hexagonal, 20-40 x 14-19 µm, smooth.

Distribution: Mexico; Central America; Caribbean, Western and Northern South America, Brazil

Ecology: Along waterways in lowlands to lower montane forest, 10-2800 m, on flooded soil or rocks submerged in streams.

Type Citation: Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 23: 56. 6 f. 18. 1860.

Other Published Figures: A. J. Grout. 1943. Fissidentaceae. N. Amer. Flora. 15(3): 167-202. Plate 1 (14-22 as F. mollis); P. A. Florschutz. 1964. Musci. Flora of Surinam 6(1): 1-271. Fig. 5 as F. mollis.