7. Anomodon solovjovii Lazarenko 东亚牛舌藓 dong-ya niu-she xian
Rev. Bryol. Lichénol. 5: 45. 1933. Type. Russia: Solovjov s.n.
Anomodon solovjovii Laz. var. henanensis B. C. Tan, D. Boufford & T.-S. Ying, Acta Bot. Yunnan. 18(1): 69. 1996. Type. China: Henan Prov., Nei-xiang Co., Bao-tian Man Natural Reserve, D. Boufford et al. 26458b (holotype FH, isotypes H, PE).
Plants medium-sized, yellowish green, brown when old, in dense mats. Secondary stems 3–6 cm long, sparsely branched, branches ca. 2 cm long; central strand present. Stem leaves crowded, appressed when dry, erect-spreading when moist, abruptly narrowed from an ovate base toward a lingulate acumen, ca. 1.2–2.5 mm long, rounded obtuse at apex, rarely acute; leaf margins papillosely serrate; costa stout, vanishing below the apex, papillose on back surfaces; leaf cells rounded quadrate to hexagonal, 7–15 µm wide, with a single setulose papilla over each cell lumen, thick-walled; basal leaf cells oblong along costa, smooth; branch leaves similar to the stem leaves, but smaller. Dioicous. Perichaetial leaves narrowly lanceolate. Setae rather short, less than 1 mm long, yellowish brown; capsules erect, ca. 2 mm long, ovoid, reddish brown; annuli persistent; exostome teeth yellowish brown, papillose above, smooth at lower portion; endostome segments only 1/4 the length of exostome, finely papillose; cilia lacking. Calyptrae papillose above. Spores 16–30 µm in diameter, finally papillose.