Syntrichia
thumb|Syntrichia caninervis, the dominant moss in the blackbrush community of the [[Mojave Desert ]] Syntrichia is a large, cosmopolitan genus of mosses in the family Pottiaceae. The genus name is of Greek origin for "with" and "hair", referring to the "twisted peristome united by a basal membrane".
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thumb|Syntrichia caninervis, the dominant moss in the blackbrush community of the [[Mojave Desert ]] Syntrichia is a large, cosmopolitan genus of mosses in the family Pottiaceae. The genus name is of Greek origin for "with" and "hair", referring to the "twisted peristome united by a basal membrane".
, the World Flora Online accepts 114 species in the genus Syntrichia: