Disceliaceae : Flag Mosses
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Description: Description of these tiny mosses, with illustrations of Discelium nudum.
The Moss Families of the British Isles Tiny, almost stemless plants resembling minute buds on persistent protonemata, the leaves without chlorophyll . Acrocarpous; the male and female plants gregarious, or the plants scattered. Mature plants about 1–3 mm high. The leaves ovate to lanceolate; spiral; almost nerveless (sometimes with a faint vestigial nerve in the upper part only). Leaf blade apices pointed; not apiculate; apically acute. Leaf blade margins concave; distally bluntly dentate. The basal leaf cells longitudinally much elongated; hexagonal, or rhomboidal; smooth. The walls of basal leaf cells thin; straight. The angular cells not well differentiated. The mid-leaf cells longitudinally much elongated; hexagonal, or rhomboidal; smooth. The walls of the mid-leaf cells thin; straight.
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