Dale H. Vitt

Plants minute and gregarious or larger, forming compact tufts and cushions, unbranched to rarely 2--3-branched, on rock, acrocarpous. Leaves twisted-spreading to stiffly erect when dry, generally erect-spreading to spreading, sometimes slightly curved when moist, linear to stoutly subulate from clasping base; margins plane, entire to denticulate; costa single, homogenous in transverse-section, ending near the apex to long-excurrent, distal leaf cells smooth, short; alar cells not differentiated to somewhat enlarged and colored. Seta straight, flexuose or cygneous. Capsule mostly erect, symmetric, cylindric-ovate to turbinate; peristome haplolepideous, of 16 triangular entire teeth or lacking.

Genera 4 (3 in the flora): widely distributed in temperate and polar regions.

Lower Taxa

• Blindia Bruch & Schimp.
• Brachydontium Fürnr.
• Seligeria Bruch, Schimper & W. Gümbel