Sematophyllum

• Authority

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

• Family

  Sematophyllaceae

• Scientific Name

  Sematophyllum

• Description

  Description - Stems rarely pinnate with the branches usually short and crowded. Leaves secund or spreading, faintly bicostate or ecostate, with the cells all smooth, the alar cells enlarged, often vesicular; margins entire or minutely serrulate; pedicels long or short; capsule with the lid long-beaked, often equaling the urn; teeth deeply lamellate inside, sometimes with minute projections on the outside, either with a zigzag median line or a deep central groove; endostome with the keeled segments more or less perforate and the cilia one or two, usually shorter, often papillose. A large genus of 314 species, mostly from tropical America. [Greek, in reference to the pointed leaves.] Type species: Hypnum siibslrumulosum Hampe.