Chenia leptophylla (C. Müll.) Zand., Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. 32:258. 1993; Phascum leptophyllum C. Müll., Flora 71: 6. 1888.
Chenia rhizophylla (Sak.) Zand., Phytologia 65: 425. 1989. Tortula rhizophylla (Sak.) Iwats. & Saito, Misc. Bryol. Lichénol. 6: 59. 1972. Physcomitrium rhizophyllum Sak., Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 52: 469. f. 2. 1938.
Pottia splachnobryoides C. Müll., Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital., n. ser. 5: 174. 1898. Type. China: Shaanxi (Schen-si), prope Liu-kian-se, Jan. 1896, P. J. Giraldi s.n. (isotype H).
Plants slender, 1.5–2.0 cm high, yellowish green to brownish. Stems erect, simple. Leaves loosely arranged, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, soft; margins more or less plane, entire below, irregularly denticulate above, broadly acute to apiculate at the apex; costa slender, subpercurrent; upper leaf cells quadrate to hexagonal, thin-walled, smooth; basal cells rectangular, thin-walled. Capsules ovoid; opercula short-conic, persistent with columella; peristome teeth absent.
Type. Africa.
Chinese specimens examined: JILIN: An-tuo Co., C. Gao 1296 (HKAS, IFSBH). XIZANG: Shuang-hu Co., K.-Y. Lang 1353, 1357 (HKAS).
Habitat: on rocks near streams; Distribution: China, Japan, India, Africa, Europe, and North America.
Illustrations: C. Gao (ed.) 1996 (Pl. 78, figs. 9–11, as Pottia splachnobryoides).
