Plants in prostrate mats, yellowish. Stems freely branched; paraphyllia absent. Leaves appressed, imbricate, suborbicular to ovate-lanceolate; margins plane to recurved, entire; apex long-piliferous; ecostate or occasionally costa double, short; alar cells not differentiated; medial laminal cells rhombic to elliptic, smooth, walls thick. Capsule erect, oblong-cylindric, symmetric.

Distribution

nw North America, Europe, Asia.

Discussion

Species 1.

Sporophytes of Iwatsukiella are rare in North America.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Iwatsukiella leucotricha