Octoblepharum

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Leucobryaceae

• Scientific Name

  Octoblepharum

• Description

  Description - Plants growing in loose or compact pale-green tufts, with dense branching stems. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, usually concave with a broader base and a narrow tapering apex, composed mostly of the broad thick costa which contains a central row of small green triangular cells, and several layers of hyaline cells above and below; the blade of the leaf is reduced to a few narrow hyaline cells on the basal margins or lacking. Pedicel short; capsule erect, symmetric, smooth; peristome single, of 8 or 16 lanceolate teeth; lid beaked; calyptra cucullate. [Greek, in reference to the 8 teeth.] Eighteen species have been described, mostly from tropical regions, the following typical.