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Description: Description of these high altitude mosses with illustrations of Timmia austriaca and T. norvegica.
The Moss Families of the British Isles Acrocarpous (robust plants, resembling in habit); forming tufts, or forming patches. Mature plants 20–90 mm high. . The leaves lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, or narrowly lanceolate to linear; spiral; crisped when dry. Leaf bases sheathing. The leaves single-nerved. The leaf nerves extending beyond the middle of the leaf, but not to the tip, or extending to the leaf tip; not excurrent. Leaf blade apices pointed; acuminate. Leaf blade margins flat, or involute or incurved; distally obscurely to coarsely dentate. Leaf blades not conspicuously bordered. The basal leaf cells longitudinally much elongated (at least a few of them orange); narrowly rectangular, or linear; papillose, or smooth. The angular cells not well differentiated. The mid-leaf cells more or less isodiametric, or more or less isodiametric to somewhat longitudinally elongated; quadrate, or rectangular, or hexagonal to rounded; papillose (sometimes, in
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