Cladocarpous mosses

Subterminal branches are sympodial branches that develop just below a terminal gynoecium or androecium. Subterminal branching is especially common in acrocarpous mosses, and in many groups most of the shoots are just a series of subterminal branches (e.g., Pottiaceae, Grimmiaceae). Subterminal branches, or secondary axes from the basal part of perichaetia in cladocarpous mosses, are present in many members of the Hypnales (La Farge-England, 1996), but their role in the plant architecture is almost never comparable with that of ordinary branches. 

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