Brachytheciaceae February 6, 2021 Dan Nelson Kindbergia oregana. Pleurocarpous mosses are often prostrate, but what makes them pleurocarps is that the sporophyte emerges from the mid to lower stem, rather than the tip of the shoot.Homalothecium fulgescensKindbergia praelongaSciuro-hypnum oedipodiumScleropodium cespitans