Plants medium-sized to large, yellow-green to red bronze, strongly or weakly glossy. Stems 2–6 cm, somewhat to weakly complanate-foliate, subpinnate to irregularly branched. Leaves erect-spreading, ovate to lanceolate; margins toothed distally; apex long-acuminate; costa double or obscure; alar cells quadrate or rectangular, enlarged, pigmented, walls thick, region differentiated in several rows, middle lamella apparent, supra-alar cells differentiated; laminal cells elongate, flexuose, smooth. Sexual condition autoicous or dioicous. Seta 2–4 cm. Capsule inclined to suberect, cylindric; exothecial cell walls not collenchymatous; operculum conic.

Distribution

se United States, Mexico, Central America, Eurasia, Pacific Islands.

Discussion

Species 1.

Selected References

Robinson, H. and C. F. Reed. 1966. The status of the moss genus Heterophyllium. Bryologist 69: 317–323.

Lower Taxa

Heterophyllium affine