Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Fissidentaceae
Fissidentaceae
Description:
Description - Plants scattered or crowded into dense cushions. Stems becoming decumbent when old, with apical or rarely lateral branches; leaves with duplicate basal blades present, the apical and dorsal blades sometimes lacking or reduced in size in the lower leaves or in the bracts of the inflorescence; pedicels always exserted, often bent or curved; capsules erect, inclined or rarely curved; walls often thickened with collenchyma cells around the mouth, also the base of the lid; annulus small, often fugacious or lacking; peristome deeply inserted; teeth bifid, usually bright red and forking, with long slender apical divisions, generally quite different from the basal segments of the teeth and often suddenly bent at a sharp angle. [Latin, in reference to the split teeth.] A large genus
Description - Plants scattered or crowded into dense cushions. Stems becoming decumbent when old, with apical or rarely lateral branches; leaves with duplicate basal blades present, the apical and dorsal blades sometimes lacking or reduced in size in the lower leaves or in the bracts of the inflorescence; pedicels always exserted, often bent or curved; capsules erect, inclined or rarely curved; walls often thickened with collenchyma cells around the mouth, also the base of the lid; annulus small, often fugacious or lacking; peristome deeply inserted; teeth bifid, usually bright red and forking, with long slender apical divisions, generally quite different from the basal segments of the teeth and often suddenly bent at a sharp angle. [Latin, in reference to the split teeth.] A large genus