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Pseudosymblepharis Broth.

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Published In: Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, Zweite Auflage 10: 261. 1924. (Nat. Pflanzenfam. (ed. 2))

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Acceptance : Accepted

Note : By Richard H. Zander

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Discussion: The genus, characterized by leaves abruptly lance-subulate and wide-spreading from a broad, high-sheathing base, resembles Symblepharis (of the Dicranaceae), but that genus has smooth leaf cells and clustered sporophytes. Pseudosymblepharis is intermediate between Tortella and Oxystegus, which also have plane leaf margins and, often at least, inflated basal cells. The broadly sheathing leaf base provides the major distinction from Oxystegus.

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Sharp, A. J., H. A. Crum & P. M. Eckel. 1994. The moss flora of Mexico. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 69(in 2 parts): [i]–vii + 1–580 + I–XVII; [i]–viii + 581–1113 + I–XVII.

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Plants rather large, in cushions. Stems branched. Leaves contorted when dry, wide-spreading when moist, long-lanceolate and subulate from a broad, sheathing base; basal cells large, thin-walled, hyaline, often extending beyond the shoulders at the margins; costa percurrent to short-excurrent, strong. Setae elongate; capsules cylindric; peristome teeth 16, erect, variously cleft. Calyptrae cucullate.

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