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Myurella Schimper in P. Bruch, W. P. Schimper & W. Gümbel, Bryol. Eur. 6: 39. 1853.
[referring to the smoothly cylindric, mouse-tail appearance of branches]
Dale H. Vitt
Plants thread-like. Branches simple to irregularly branched, erect-ascending to creeping; paraphyllia absent. Leaves imbricate and erect to wide-spreading and widely spaced, concave, ovate, blunt, and sometimes apiculate; margins erect, subentire to serrulate; laminal cells rhomboidal, firm-walled, nearly smooth to strongly 1-papillose abaxially; costa short, single, double, weak or almost absent; alar cells not differentiated. Sexual condition dioicous. Sporophytes rare. Capsule erect to nearly horizontal, cylindric, smooth; peristome double, well-developed. Calyptra cucullate.
Species 9 (3 in the flora); worldwide except Antarctica . Small, slender plants of calcareous rock shelves and calcareous moist soils, mostly in boreal and Arctic zones.
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Leaf cells with one, large stout papilla abaxially. |
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Myurella sibirica |
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Leaf cells smooth or prorulose abaxially. |
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Leaves imbricate, erect, rounded-obtuse to occasionally short-apiculate. |
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Myurella julacea |
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Leaves distant, wide-spreading, shortly acuminate-apiculate. |
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Myurella tenerrima |
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Lower Taxa
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