Dicranoweisia

Belongs within: Seligeriaceae.

Dicranoweisia is a genus of mosses growing in dense cushions, with leaves crisped when dry and smooth, erect capsules (Dixon 1924).

Characters (from Dixon 1924): Plants in dense cushions; leaves crisped when dry, entire, with angular cells more or less distinct. Capsule erect, smooth; peristome teeth cleft at apex or undivided, articulated and internally barred.

<==Dicranoweisia Lindb. in Milde 1869S04
    |--*D. cirrata (Hedw.) Lindb. in Milde 1869OZB-O03, S04 (see below for synonymy)
    |--D. africanaOZB-O03
    |--D. antarctica (Müll.Hal.) Kindb. 1888SK02
    |--D. austro-crispulaD03
    |--D. brevipes (Müll.Hal.) Cardot 1885SK02
    |--D. crispula (Hedw.) Milde 1869S04 (see below for synonymy)
    |    |--D. c. var. crispulaD24
    |    `--D. c. var. atrataD24
    |--D. microcarpa (Hooker & Wilson) Paris 1896 (see below for synonymy)SK02
    `--D. perpulvinata Dusén 1903D03
Nomen nudum: Dicranoweisia tenella Dusén 1903D03

*Dicranoweisia cirrata (Hedw.) Lindb. in Milde 1869^{OZB-O03, S04} [=Mnium cirrhatum^D24, Blindia cirrata^OZB-O03, Holomitrium cirratum^SK02, Weissia cirrata^OZB-O03; incl. Dicranoweisia sutherlandii^D24]

Dicranoweisia crispula (Hedw.) Milde 1869^S04 [=Weissia crispula Hedw. 1801^{D24, OZB-O03}, Blindia crispula^OZB-O03, Hymenoloma crispulum (Hedw.) Ochyra in Ochyra, Żarnowiec & Bednarek-Ochyra 2003^OZB-O03; incl. Dicranum leiophyllum^D24]

Dicranoweisia microcarpa (Hooker & Wilson) Paris 1896 [=Weissia microcarpa, Brachydontium microcarpum, Dicranum microcarpum; incl. Weissia bicolor Hampe 1880]^SK02

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[D24] Dixon, H. N. 1924. The Student’s Handbook of British Mosses 3^rd ed. V. V. Sumfield: Eastbourne.

[D03] Dusén, P. 1903. Patagonian and Fuegian mosses. In: Scott, W. B. (ed.) Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896–1899 vol. 8. Botany pp. 63–126. The University: Princeton (New Jersey).

[OZB-O03] Ochyra, R., J. Żarnowiec & H. Bednarek-Ochyra. 2003. Census Catalogue of Polish Mosses. Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences: Cracow.

[S04] Smith, A. J. E. 2004. The Moss Flora of Britain and Ireland 2^nd ed. Cambridge University Press.

[SK02] Streimann, H., & N. Klazenga. 2002. Catalogue of Australian Mosses. Flora of Australia Supplementary Series 17. Australian Biological Resources Study: Canberra.