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Catoscopium Bridel, Bryol. Univ. 1: 112. 1826.
[* the mouth of the capsule is directed downward and hence “looks down”]

Plants erect, cushion forming. Stems slender with reddish tomentum. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, distal laminal cells ± quadrate, smooth, basal cells longer, smooth. Seta erect, black. Capsule asymmetric, ± inclined, peristome reduced.

Species 1; North America, Europe, Asia.

Lower Taxon


 

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