22. Pohlia sphagnicola (Bruch & Schimp. in B.S.G.) Broth. 大丝瓜藓 da si gua xian
Nat. Pflanzenfam. I(3): 549. 1903. Bryum sphagnicola Bruch & Schimp. in B.S.G., Bryol. Eur. 4: 156. pl. 349. 1846. Type: Europe.
Plants small to medium-sized, 10–20 mm high, yellowish green, not glossy, in loose or dense tufts. Stems reddish, erect, often branched at base. Leaves erect, appressed when dry, spreading when moist, ovate-lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, 1.5–3.0 mm long, acute or acuminate at apex; margins plane or slightly recurved; costae strong, percurrent or shortly excurrent; median cells narrowly rhomboidal, 35–60 µm × 8–10 µm, thick-walled. Gemmae absent. Dioicous. Setae slender, curved, yellowish or reddish brown, 1.5–3.5 cm long; capsules inclined, pyriform, ca. 2–3 mm long, neck short; opercula conic, bluntly apiculate; peristome double; exostome teeth yellowish, papillose, borders differentiated; endostome segments slender, keeled, perforate; basal membrane high; cilia 2–3, nodose. Spores yellowish, 18–21 µm in diameter, minutely papillose.