Vesicularia

• Authority

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

• Family

  Hypnaceae

• Scientific Name

  Vesicularia

• Description

  Description - Plants growing in moist shady places, forming thin mats on the ground. Stems creeping; branches irregularly pinnate, usually short; leaves not crowded, shrunken and twisted when dry, usually flattened and of two kinds, the lateral ones larger and unequal, or falcate, the upper and lower ones more regular and much narrower, often longer and more acuminate; veins two, short or none; margins often bordered, entire or serrate; cells large and hexagonal, smooth, the alar not enlarged. Autoicous. Pedicels exserted and slender; capsules horizontal or nodding, ovoid and contracted below the mouth when dry; annulus present; peristome double; lid flat and beaked; calyptra cueullate; spores small. About ninety species have been described, many with very obscure and minute differences. [Named in reference to the large leaf-cells.] Type species: Hooleria Meyeniana Hampe.