Eulacophyllum

• Authority

  Buck, William R. 2003. Guide to the plants of central french Guiana. Part 3. Mosses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76: 1-167.

• Family

  Stereophyllaceae

• Scientific Name

  Eulacophyllum

• Description

  Genus Description - Plants relatively small, in lustrous, light to yellowish green, mostly thin, ± flat, tightly attached mats; stems simple or sparingly and irregularly branched, somewhat complanate-foliate; in cross-section with a sclerodermis. Leaves mostly distant, ± stiff, erect-spreading when dry or moist, complanate, oblong-lanceolate to oblong-ovate, sometimes lingulate, cultriform, acute to obtuse, often asymmetric, flat or concave, not decurrent; margins toothed above; costa single, projecting at apex as a small spine; cells long-rectangular to long-hexagonal with thickened, blunt ends, ca. 10-15:1, often appearing prorulose but smooth or nearly so, firm-walled, not porose, becoming shorter in extreme apex; alar cells usually distinctly differentiated, quadrate to rectangular, small, with many on one side of costa and few on other, sometimes with few on both sides of costa. Autoicous, but rarely fertile. Setae orange to reddish-brown, straight or flexuose; capsules cernuous, somewhat arcuate, ellipsoidal or ovoid, not plicate.