毛叶青毛藓

Plants rather small, slender, only up to 1 cm high, yellowish green, not shiny, in dense tufts. Stems erect or ascending, often simple, rarely branched, radiculose at base; central strand present. Leaves erect or slightly crispate when dry, falcate-secund, somewhat homomallous, linear-lanceolate, up to 6 mm long, rather abruptly narrowed from an oblong-ovate base to a very long, setaceous or subtubulose subula; margins plane, entire below, only serrulate near the apex; costa occupying ca. ¼ the leaf base width, excurrent in a long awn; upper cells rectangular, thick-walled; lower cells quadrate to short-rectangular, broader close to the costa, narrower at the margins; alar cells few, subquadrate, forming indistinct auricles, hyaline or brownish. Sporophytes not seen.

Type. China: Hunan, Yuen-schan, alt. 1250 m, Handel-Mazzetti 12114 (holotype H).

Specimens examined: GUANGDONG: Ying-de Co., IBSC Geo. Dept. 6172 (IBSC, IFSBH). GUIZHOU: Sui-yang Co., C. Gao & J.-Y. Feng 33174 (IFSBH). HUNAN: see the type information cited above. SICHUAN: Tian-quan Co., C. Gao et al. 18448 (IFSBH). XIZANG: Mo-tuo Co., Y.-G. Su 2911 (IFSBH, KUN). YUNNAN: Gong-shan Co., M.-Z. Wang 9683(b), 10678 (IFSBH, PE).

Habitat: on bases of trees; Distribution: endemic to China.

Illustrations: Pl. 34, figs. 8–16.