Gametophytes usually small, light green. Leaves broad, soft, larger above
and crowded in comal tufts; costa strong, nearly percurrent to short-excurrent;
cells large, lax and thin-walled, smooth, rhomboidal above, rectangular
below. Calyptra smooth, cucullate, often inflated below, long-beaked. Capsules
emersed to long-exserted, erect or curved, smooth or plicate; operculum
not beaked, sometimes apiculate; peristome sometimes lacking, or single, or
double with segments opposite the 16 obliquely directed teeth, endostome
lacking basal membrane or cilia.
Capsules curved and asymmetric (1) Funaria
Capsules erect and symmetric (2) Entosthodon
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