Leucobryaceae

Diagnosis: Plants small, glaucous green, 3-7 mm high. Leaves 2-3 mm long, erect at base, weakly flexuose above, lanceolate to narrowly ovate-lanceolate, gradually narrowed from base to apex; apex broadly acute to obtuse and apiculate; margins erect to incurved, entire; costa in cross section throughout the leaf with a single layer of dorsal leucocysts, a median layer of chlorocysts and a single layer of ventral leucocysts, in surface view the dorsal leucocysts enlarged, rectangular, not subdivided; upper chlorocysts subdivided and forming chains of rounded to quadrate cells; leaf lamina poorly developed, 1-2 rows of linear cells above, 2-4 rows of rectangular cells at base. Sporophytes unknown.

Distribution: Central America; Western South America, Brazil

Ecology: On bark at base of trees.

Basionym: Ochrobryum subobtusifolium Broth.

Basionym Citation: Bihang til Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 26 Afd. 3(7): 10. 1900.

Type Locality: Brazil, Serra da Chapada

Type Collection: Lindeman 402

Types Deposited at: Holotype: H