Calymperes
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Calymperaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Plants in dense mats; stems crowded, simple or branching; leaves curled and twisted when dry, base hyaline, often white and broader than the point, the upper leaves often contracted into a narrow apex, bearing brood-bodies, which serve to propagate the plants when sterile. Dioieous. Calyptra large, covering the capsule, spirally ribbed and often rough at apex; lid beaked; peristome and annulus lacking. [Named in reference to the large calyptra.] About 200 species of tropical distribution. Type species: Calymperes lonchophyllum Schwaegr.