Barbula Moss

Description

Stems - cm. Leaves firm when wet, long-ligulate to broadly lanceolate from an oblong base, -.5 mm, base often oblong and widened, not strongly sheathing, margins recurved in the proximal /-/3, rarely to near apex or plane, apex broadly acute to rounded; costa excurrent as a short or long mucro, seldom muticous, abaxial costal surface with scattered solid papillae, hydroids present; distal laminal cells firm-walled, quadrate, 8- �m wide, :, papillose. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Perichaetial leaves weakly differentiated. Seta -.5 cm. Theca -.5 mm. Spores 8- �m.