Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Wijkia carlottae	Patricia M. Eckel

Plants small, yellow-green, dark green, or brownish, glossy. Stems 1–2 cm, not complanate-foliate, irregularly to regularly pinnate to 2-pinnate. Leaves closely imbricate to slightly spreading, ovate, straight; margins serrulate; apex gradually acuminate, often abruptly piliferous; ecostate or costa double; alar cells elongate, inflated, pigmented, walls thin, region of 1–4 cells, middle lamella not apparent, supra-alar cells differentiated, few, quadrate to rhombic; laminal cells vermicular, smooth or 1-seriate multipapillose. Sexual condition dioicous or phyllodioicous. [Seta 1–2 cm. Capsule inclined to horizontal, ovoid to cylindric; exothecial cell-walls not or slightly collenchymatous; operculum short to long-rostrate or conic].

Distribution

B.C., Central America, South America, Asia (India), Asia (Indonesia), Asia (Japan), Asia (Taiwan), Africa, Pacific Islands (New Zealand), Pacific Islands (Philippines), Australia

Discussion

Species 25 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Wijkia carlottae