Plants small to medium-sized, delicate, scattered or in lax tufts, yellowish to light green. Stems 1-3 cm, weakly erect to procumbent, simple, tomentose proximally. Leaves erect when dry, erect-spreading when moist, lanceolate, 0.5-1.5 mm; margins plane to narrowly revolute, bluntly serrulate nearly to base, teeth single, projecting from distal ends of marginal cells; apex acuminate; costa excurrent, distal abaxial surface rough; laminal cells , prorulose at distal or sometimes proximal ends on abaxial side, ; basal cells short-rectangular to quadrate, shorter, broader than distal, 40 × 7 µm; medial and distal cells oblong, 10-30 × 5-7 µm. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition dioicous; perigonia discoid. Seta 2-3 cm, straight or flexuose. Capsule 1.3-2 mm. Spores subreniform, 20-26 µm. Philonotis capillaris Lindb. ex Hartm., Handb. Skand. Fl. (ed. 10), 2: 46. 1871. Protologue. Sweden. Stockh. vid Nacka, Petersberg, Drottningholm och Huddinge, vid jernvägen: Lindb. Philonotis capillaris Lindb., Hedwigia 6: 40. 1867, nom. nud. ? Bartramia bernoullii C. Müll., Bull. Herb. Boissier 5: 187. 1897. Philonotis bernoullii (C. Müll.) Par. Index Bryol. Suppl. 265. 1900. Protologue: Guatemala. In rep. Guatemala s. loco speciali. No 61[Türckheim]. Philonotis macounii Lesq. & James, Man. Mosses N. America 208. 1884. Protologue: Canada. Vancouver Island. Lectotype (Zales 1973): Canadian Musci 152. On wet shaded rocks, Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, Macoun (isolectotype MO). Plants small, in loose, yellowish green or green tufts, to 5 mm high. Stems red; rhizoids at base, reddish brown, smooth to lightly roughened. Leaves 0.7–1.0 mm long, erect when dry, or erect to erect-spreading when wet, straight or secund, lanceolate; apices acuminate; margins narrowly revolute, doubly or singly serrate; costa long-excurrent; upper cells papillose at upper ends, rectangular to elongate, firm‑walled, 15–35 x 2.5–7 μm, basal cells weakly and faintly papillose, papillae from lower cell ends, upper cell ends or midway between contiguous cells, rectangular, to 45 x 7μm, alar cells quadrate. Dioicous. Perigonia and sporophytes not known in Central America. "... perigonia discoid. Setae 13–20 mm long; capsules 1.3–2 mm long. Spores 17–24 μm" (Crum & Anderson 1981). Plants small to medium-sized, delicate, scattered or in lax tufts, yellowish to light green. Stems 1-3 cm, weakly erect to procumbent, simple, tomentose proximally. Leaves erect when dry, erect-spreading when moist, lanceolate, 0.5-1.5 mm; margins plane to narrowly revolute, bluntly serrulate nearly to base, teeth single, projecting from distal ends of marginal cells; apex acuminate; costa excurrent, distal abaxial surface rough; laminal cells , prorulose at distal or sometimes proximal ends on abaxial side, ; basal cells short-rectangular to quadrate, shorter, broader than distal, 40 × 7 µm; medial and distal cells oblong, 10-30 × 5-7 µm. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition dioicous; perigonia discoid. Seta 2-3 cm, straight or flexuose. Capsule 1.3-2 mm. Spores subreniform, 20-26 µm. Philonotis capillaris Lindb. ex Hartm., Handb. Skand. Fl. (ed. 10), 2: 46. 1871. Protologue. Sweden. Stockh. vid Nacka, Petersberg, Drottningholm och Huddinge, vid jernvägen: Lindb. Philonotis capillaris Lindb., Hedwigia 6: 40. 1867, nom. nud. ? Bartramia bernoullii C. Müll., Bull. Herb. Boissier 5: 187. 1897. Philonotis bernoullii (C. Müll.) Par. Index Bryol. Suppl. 265. 1900. Protologue: Guatemala. In rep. Guatemala s. loco speciali. No 61[Türckheim]. Philonotis macounii Lesq. & James, Man. Mosses N. America 208. 1884. Protologue: Canada. Vancouver Island. Lectotype (Zales 1973): Canadian Musci 152. On wet shaded rocks, Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, Macoun (isolectotype MO). Plants small, in loose, yellowish green or green tufts, to 5 mm high. Stems red; rhizoids at base, reddish brown, smooth to lightly roughened. Leaves 0.7–1.0 mm long, erect when dry, or erect to erect-spreading when wet, straight or secund, lanceolate; apices acuminate; margins narrowly revolute, doubly or singly serrate; costa long-excurrent; upper cells papillose at upper ends, rectangular to elongate, firm‑walled, 15–35 x 2.5–7 μm, basal cells weakly and faintly papillose, papillae from lower cell ends, upper cell ends or midway between contiguous cells, rectangular, to 45 x 7μm, alar cells quadrate. Dioicous. Perigonia and sporophytes not known in Central America. "... perigonia discoid. Setae 13–20 mm long; capsules 1.3–2 mm long. Spores 17–24 μm" (Crum & Anderson 1981).General Information
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