Plants 1--5 cm, creeping stolons forming erect stems that are simple or sparsely branched above a very short stipe-like basal portion, shiny yellowish green. Stem leaves dense, not seriate, similar wet or dry, spreading to recurved or squarrose [erect], broad ovate-orbicular [ovate-lanceolate], 1.5--2.5 X 1.0--1.5 mm, concave, weakly plicate; apex acute, base not auriculate or decurrent; margins plane, entire to serrulate; costa short and double or single, reaching to mid-leaf or above, sometimes forked; medial laminal cells sinuose, 35--65 µm, smooth, walls porose; alar cells little differentiated. Branch leaves, if present, similar to stem leaves. [Seta 4--5 mm. Capsule cylindrical; operculum long-rostrate from a low conical base, rostrum inclined, blunt. Calyptra partially covering capsule, hairless, rough with projecting cell ends.]

Species 12 (1 in the flora); tropical and subtropical regions, se United States, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, n S. America, tropical Africa, Asia, Africa.

Lower Taxon

• Jaegerina scariosa (Lorentz) Arzeni

Related Synonym(s):

• Jaegerinopsis scariosa (Lorentz) Brotherus = Jaegerina scariosa (Lorentz) Arzeni
• Meteorium scariosum Lorentz = Jaegerina scariosa (Lorentz) Arzeni