Plants of the Gila Wilderness
Presented in Association with the
Western New Mexico University Department
of Natural Sciences
Hymenolomataceae
According to Werner et al. 2013, "The diagnostic characters for the Hymenoloma species are
considered to be the colour of the plants, the leaf posture when dry, the differentiation
of the alar cells, stratification in the upper lamina and margins, the colour and length
of seta, and the papillosity of the peristome." Species now within this family have previously
been placed in the Dicranaceae.
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