80. Anomodontaceae Kindberg
Íñigo Granzow-de la Cerda
Plants small to large, in dense or loose mats, glaucous, green, brown, or yellowish brown, dull. Stems creeping, sparsely to profusely branched, irregularly pinnate; paraphyllia absent. Stem and branch leaves differentiated. Stem leaves scalelike, minute; apex acute-acuminate to rounded; costa single, long, ending below apex, thick, usually pellucid, or double and short; laminal cells short. Branch leaves with costa single, ending sharply at or near apex, pellucid. Sexual condition dioicous. Seta dark to light reddish or brown, flexuose. Capsule erect, exserted; operculum conic to obliquely short-rostrate; exostome whitish yellow to pale brown, often striolate at base and papillose.
Genera 4, species ca. 20 (2 genera, 9 species in the flora): North America, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America, Europe, e Asia, Africa, Pacific Islands, Australia; circumboreal areas.
SELECTED REFERENCE Granzow-de la Cerda, Í. 1997. Revision and phylogenetic study of Anomodon and Herpetineuron (Anomodontaceae, Musci). Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 21: 205-275.
