Belongs within: Hypnales.
The Entodontaceae are a family of mosses with creeping, often irregularly branched stems. They are particularly diverse in tropical montane habitats. Members of the type genus Entodon have concave leaves with a weak double costa.
Characters (from Khatun & Hadiuzzaman 2006): Medium-sized, slender, glossy plants growing in loose tufts. Main stem creeping, irregularly to pinnately or sub-pinnately branched, branches generally julaceous. Stem and branch leaves more or less similar, leaves crowded in many rows, usually appressed at least when dry, sometimes more or less complanate, mostly symmetrical. Costa absent or very short, double and delicate. Leaves linear to oblong-linear, smooth, those at the basal angle quadrate and rectangular or transversely rectangular, sometimes in many oblique rows, alar region well-differentiated.
<==Entodontaceae |--Campylodontium Schwägr. 1827SK02 |--Cylindrothecium Bruch & Schimp. 1851SK02 |--Rozea Besch. 1872N02, KC01 | |--R. diversifoliaB-OO10 | `--R. pterogonioidesN02 |--Mesonodon Hampe 1865SK02 | `--M. flavescens (Hooker) Buck 1980 [=Campylodontium flavescens]SK02 `--Entodon Müll.Hal. 1845SK02 |--E. concinnus (De Not.) Paris 1904S04 (see below for synonymy) |--E. curvatusN02 |--E. hampeanusJ87 |--E. laetusN02 |--E. luridusN02 |--E. luteonitensN02 |--E. mackaviensis Müll.Hal. 1872 (see below for synonymy)SK02 |--E. macropodusJ87 |--E. myurusN02 |--E. plicatus Müll.Hal. 1845 (see below for synonymy)SK02 `--E. rubicundusN02 Nomen nudum: Entodon hartmannii Müll.Hal. ex Geh. 1877 [=Cylindrothecium hartmannii Paris 1894]SK02 Entodon hypnodelphus Müll.Hal. ex Muell. 1880SK02
Entodon concinnus (De Not.) Paris 1904S04 [=Cylindrothecium concinnumS04, Hypnum concinnumD24; incl. Entodon orthocarpusS04, H. orthocarpumOZB-O03]
Entodon mackaviensis Müll.Hal. 1872 [=Cylindrothecium mackaviense, E. mackayensis (l. c.); incl. E. daemelii Müll.Hal. ex Jaeger 1878 (n. n.), Cylindrothecium daemeli Paris 1894 (n. n.), E. latifolius Broth. 1892 (n. n.), C. myosurella Müll.Hal. ex Geh. 1876 (n. n.), E. myosurella Müll.Hal. ex Jaeger 1878 (nom. inv.), C. toowoombae (n. n.), E. toowoombae Müll.Hal. ex Geh. 1877 (n. n.)]SK02
Entodon plicatus Müll.Hal. 1845 [incl. E. flaccidisetus Müll.Hal. ex Bailey 1890 (n. n.), Cylindrothecium novae-valesiae Hampe ex Geh. 1876 (n. n.), E. novae-valesiae Hampe 1878 (nom. inv.), Campylodontium pallidissimum Müll.Hal. ex Fleischer 1922 (n. n.), E. pallidissimus Fleischer 1922 (n. n.), E. pallidus Mitt. 1873, Cylindrothecium pallidum, E. pancherianus (Besch.) Jaeger 1878, E. tasmanicus Mitt. 1882, Cylindrothecium tasmanicum, E. terrae-reginae Dixon 1942]SK02
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[B-OO10] Bednarek-Ochyra, H., & R. Ochyra. 2010. Bucklandiella shevockii (Bryophyta, Grimmiaceae), an exquisite new species from Yunnan, China. Polish Botanical Journal 55 (2): 499–506.
[D24] Dixon, H. N. 1924. The Student’s Handbook of British Mosses 3rd ed. V. V. Sumfield: Eastbourne.
[J87] Judd, W. S. 1987. Floristic study of Morne La Visite and Pic Macaya National Parks, Haiti. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum—Biological Sciences 32 (1): 1–136.
Khatun, H., & S. Hadiuzzaman. 2006. Pleurocarpous mosses of Bangladesh: family Entodontaceae. Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy 13 (2): 131–137.
[KC01] Kirk, P. M., P. F. Cannon, J. C. David & J. A. Stalpers. 2001. Ainsworth & Bisby’s Dictionary of the Fungi 9th ed. CAB International: Wallingford (UK).
[N02] Negi, H. R. 2002. Abundance and diversity of moss communities of Chopta-Tunganath in the Garhwal Himalaya. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 99 (3): 418–433.
[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 2nd 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.