Desmatodon
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Pottiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Plants usually in cushions on limestone rocks or in crevices of walls. Stems erect, usually short and simple or forking. Leaves crowded, incurved and twisted when dry, spreading when moist, oblong-lanceolate; apex acute or obtuse; margins entire or serrulate, flat or recurved, sometimes bordered; costa ending below the apex, percurrent or excurrent into a slender awn, papillose on both surfaces; upper cells smooth or papillose; lower cells longer and smooth. Monoicous or dioicous. Pedicel erect; capsules erect or nodding, ovoid or cylindric; annulus present; peristome single, of 16 short, erect or slightly twisted, papillose, teeth united at base, with a short exserted basal membrane; lid short, conic-beaked; cells oblong; calyptra cucullate; spores rough or smooth. [Latin, in reference to the basal union of the teeth.] A small genus of about 12 species, varying in habit and distribution. Type species: Discranum latifolium Hedw.