Dicranella alpina Paris 1900

Dicranella alpina (C. Mull.) Paris, Index Bryol
Suppl. 115. 1900.
Angstroemia alpina C. Mull. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 186. 1897. Dicranella gracilicaulis Card. Rev. Bryol. 37: 118. 1910.
Dioicous: plants in low rather broad yellowish-brown cushions; stems very small, simple: leaves somewhat laxly imbricate, spreading when moist, from a very narrow base, lanceolateacuminate, the broad percurrent costa occupying the very entire, elongate, more or less convolute subula, with basal cells rather lax, larger, those toward the apex much smaller, more rectangular; perichaetial leaves the longest: capsule on a yellowish, somewhat slender, elongate seta, very small, cylindric-elliptic, small-mouthed, with a conic, obliquely rostrate lid; annulus narrow, persistent; peristome short, normal: calyptra smooth. (Translated from the original description.) 93
Type locality : Naguala, Guatemala. Distribution: Mexico and Guatemala.