Cynodontium Moss

Description

Leaves: Curled and contorted when dry, upright-spreading when wet (Lawton 1971), narrowly-lanceolate, 2-3(-3.5) mm; apex essentially acute; margin lightly curved under for a portion of the leaf or occasionally almost flat, 2(-3)-layered (FNA 2007), finely toothed near apex (Lawton 1971); costa single, smooth proximally, or sometimes toothed abaxially in the apical end from protruding cell ends, guide cells occurring in one row in x-section (FNA 2007).