Blindia
Dioicous or autoicous (not in Victoria). Asexual propagules absent. Mats, cushions or turves on rocks, aquatic or beside streams. Stems simple or sparingly to highly branched by forking and innovation; central strand present or absent (not in Victoria). Leaves subulate from an ovate to lanceolate base, straight or falcate, erect to wide-spreading (not in Victoria) when moist, often secund, scarcely altered or becoming flexuose or incurved when dry; apex obtuse to acute; costa single, excurrent, occupying most of subula, sometime ill-defined near base; margins denticulate at apex or entire throughout, plane, without a border; laminal cells linear to rectangular or quadrate, smooth; alar cells differentiated, oblong, rectangular or subquadrate, orange or hyaline, some inflated. Capsule immersed (not in Victoria) or exserted, erect, straight, obconic, urceolate or hemispheric, without an annulus. Calyptra cucullate, smooth, glabrous. Operculum rostrate, rarely mammillate (not in Victoria), often systylious. Peristome absent (not in Victoria) or of 16 teeth, sometimes with preperistome (not in Victoria); exostome teeth entire or split in apical half.
Thirteen species, with most in New Zealand and the subantarctic islands, but also in North America to Iceland, Guatemala, South America, Lesotho, Japan, China, India, Pakistan, south-east Australia and at high altitude in New Guinea (Barlett & Vitt 1986; Fedosov et al. 2021); one species in Victoria.
Victorian species formerly included in Blindia, have been shown to belong to two separate lineages belonging to two separate families (Fedosov et al. 2017, 2021). One of these comprise species maintained in Blindia in the Seligeriaceae and includes Victorian B. magellanica Schimp. ex Müll.Hal. (Fedosov et al. 2017). The second is a lineage placed in the Rhabdoweisiaceae that is now Pseudoblindia (Fedosov et al. 2021).
SpinningBartlett, J.K.; Vitt, D.H. (1986). A survey of species in the genus Blindia (Bryopsida, Seligeriaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 24: 203–246.
Fedosov, V.E.; Fedorova, A.V.; Ignatova, E.A.; Ignatov, M.S. (2017). A revision of the genus Seligeria (Seligeriaceae, Bryophyta) in Russia inferred from molecular data. Phytotaxa 323: 27–50.
Fedosov, V.E.; Fedorova, A.V.; Larraín, J.; Santos, M.B.; Stech, M.; Kučera, J.; Brinda, J.C.; Tubanova, D.Y.; Von Konrat, M.; Ignatova, E.A.; Ignatov, M.S. (2021). Unity in diversity: phylogenetics and taxonomy of Rhabdoweisiaceae (Dicranales, Bryophyta). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 195: 545–567.
