Splachnobryaceae

Diagnosis: Stems to 12 mm long. Leaves 1-2 mm long, ovate to ligulate; apices obtuse to rounded; margins entire to crenulate, particularly in distal half; costa subpercurrent to percurrent. Leaf cells smooth, occasionally bulging-mammillose, upper cells rhombic, 1-2:1, median cells 2-4:1, basal cells oblong. Setae yellow to reddish brown, 3-6 mm long; capsules 0.6-2 mm long. Spores smooth, 13-17 µm diameter.

Distribution: Southeastern U.S.; Mexico; Central America; Caribbean, Western and Northern South America, Brazil; Northern Europe; Africa, Western Indian Ocean; North Central Pacific

Ecology: On wet rocks, shaded soils and in seepage areas; sea level to 850 m.

Basionym: Weissia obtusa Brid.

Basionym Citation: Muscologia Recentiorum Supplementum 1: 118. 1806.

Type Locality: Hispaniola

Type Collection: Poiteau ("Boiteau")

Other Published Figures: E. B. Bartram. 1949. Mosses of Guatemala. fig. 68 D-F; P. A. Florschutz. 1964. Musci. Flora of Suriname 6(1): 1-271. fig. 69.; B. Allen. 2002. Moss Flora of Central America. fig. 123.