Weisia controversa

Weisia controversa

Weisia controversa Hedw., Sp. Musc. 67, 1801. [Original material: Leipzig, Germany, coll. Hedwig.]

Plants in dense cushions, bright to yellowish green, stems erect, often branching. Leaves lanceolate, up to 3 mm long; middle and upper margins strongly involute, entire; costa percurrent to short-excurrent in short, pale mucro, 35–45 μm wide at base; cells of upper lamina 6–7 μm in diameter, rounded-quadrate or hexagonal, obscured with numerous simple papillae; basal cells longer, larger, nonpapillose. Autoicous. Setae erect, 3–10 mm long, yellowish. Capsules erect, oval, brownish; peristome teeth of 1–10 usually papillose sections, sometimes perforate. Spores 15–20 μm in diameter.

MAS AFUERA: Q. Mono, Sk. M119 (S).

The species is very widely distributed in the temperate and tropical parts of the world.