pleurocarpous

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

pleurocarpous
    adj 1: (of mosses) having the archegonia on short lateral
           branches [ant: {acrocarpous}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Pleurocarpic \Pleu`ro*car"pic\, Pleurocarpous
\Pleu`ro*car"pous\, a. (Bot.)
   Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the
   pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; --
   opposed to {acrocarpous}.
   [1913 Webster]