Diphyscium is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of moss

Moss

Mosses are small, soft plants that are typically 1–10 cm tall, though some species are much larger. They commonly grow close together in clumps or mats in damp or shady locations. They do not have flowers or seeds, and their simple leaves cover the thin wiry stems...

es in the family Diphysciaceae. Members of this genus are small, perennial plants. The capsule does not elongate much, and remains buried among surrounding leaves.

There are fifteen species of Diphyscium. However, two of these species formely were placed in the southeast Asia

Southeast Asia

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n genus Theriotia, and one species, from Chile

Chile

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, formerly was segregated in the monotypic genus Muscoflorschuetzia. In 2003, Magombo proposed reclassifying all fifteen species as belonging to the single genus Diphyscium.