Plants threadlike, pale green, yellow-green, or glaucous green. Stems simple to irregularly branched; paraphyllia absent. Leaves erect to wide-spreading, imbricate or widely spaced, round to ovate; margins erect, subentire, serrulate, or spinose-dentate; apex obtuse, acuminate, or apiculate; costa single, double, short, weak, or almost ecostate; alar cells not differentiated; laminal cells rhomboidal, faintly prorulose to strongly 1-papillose abaxially, walls firm. Capsule erect to nearly horizontal, cylindric, symmetric.

Distribution

Nearly worldwide except Antarctica.

Discussion

Species 9 (3 in the flora).

Species of Myurella are small, slender plants of calcareous rock shelves and calcareous moist soil, mostly in boreal and arctic zones. The capsules are smooth.

References

None.

Key

1	Laminal cells 1-papillose abaxially.	Myurella sibirica
1	Laminal cells faintly prorulose abaxially	> 2
2	Leaves imbricate, erect; apices rounded-obtuse to occasionally short-apiculate.	Myurella julacea
2	Leaves distant, erect to spreading; apices shortly acuminate-apiculate.	Myurella tenerrima