Pyxidanthera

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Diapensiaceae

• Scientific Name

  Pyxidanthera

• Description

  Genus Description - Sep distinct; cor broadly campanulate, the obovate lobes exceeding the tube; stamens 5, adnate to the cor to the sinuses; filaments broad and flat, much shorter than the cor-lobes; anthers inflexed, the 2 pollen-sacs parallel, acute, opening by transverse slits; style slender; stigma rounded; branched, prostrate, evergreen subshrubs with small, alternate or fascicled, crowded lvs and numerous sessile fls solitary at the ends of short branches. Monospecific.

• Common Names

  pyxie, flowering moss