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Octoblepharum

octoblepharum moss
Habit Plants small, densely to loosely cespitose.
Stems

erect.
Leaves

crowded, erect to spreading-recurved, weakly bordered with elongate hyaline cells;

chlorophyllose cells in a single layer;

costa absent.
Peristome

with prostome present.

Octoblepharum
Distribution
Worldwide in tropical and subtropical regions
Discussion

Species ca. 15 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Parent taxa Leucophanaceae
Subordinate taxa
O. albidum
Name authority Hedwig: Sp. Musc. Frond., 50. 1801 ,
Source FNA vol. 27, p. 664. Treatment author: William D. Reese†.
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