16. Dicranoweisia Lind. ex Milde 卷毛藓属 juan-mao xian shu
Bryol. Siles. 48. 1869.
Plants usually small, dull, dark green or yellowish brown, in dense tufts. Stems erect, branched, often radiculose at base; central strand present. Leaves flexuose, crispate when dry, patent to spreading when moist, lanceolate-subulate, gradually tapered to an acuminate apex; margins entire, recurved above the middle; costa narrow, subpercurrent; upper leaf cells small, subquadrate, smooth or sometimes longitudinally ridged (striate); basal cells elongate, rectangular or linear, subquadrate toward the margins; alar cells differentiated or absent. Autoicous. Perichaetial leaves convolute-sheathing at base, with or without pointed apices. Setae solitary, straight and elongate; capsules erect, symmetric, oblong-ovoid to cylindric, more or less wrinkled when dry; opercula obliquely long-rostrate; annuli present or none; stomata present; peristome teeth 16, inserted well below the mouth, undivided or slightly forked, often papillose throughout. Calyptrae cucullate, smooth, entire at base. Spores spherical, smooth or nearly so.