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|accepted_name=Pseudobryum
|accepted_authority=(Kindberg) T. J. Koponen
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Bot. Fenn.
|place=5: 147. 1968
|year=1968
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Mnium subg. Pseudobryum
|authority=Kindberg
|publication_title=Eur. N. Amer. Bryin.
|publication_place=2: 338. 1898 (as Pseudo-Bryum)
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Mniaceae;Pseudobryum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Mniaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pseudobryum]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek pseudes, false, and genus Bryum, alluding to similarity
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 215, 216, 236, 658, 659
|treatment_page=page 235
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>3–10(–15) cm, in loose mats. <b>Stems</b> brown, erect, simple or sometimes branched distally, not dendroid; rhizoids brown, macronemata mainly proximal, scattered distally, micronemata present. <b>Leaves</b> green or yellow-green, dark brown when old, crisped and weakly contorted when dry, erect or erect-spreading, often weakly undulate when moist, broadly ovate, elliptic, or sometimes orbicular, (3–)4–6(–7) mm; base not or short-decurrent; margins plane, green or yellow-green, 1-stratose, entire or lightly toothed to below mid leaf, teeth single, blunt or sometimes rounded; apex rounded, obtuse, or rarely retuse, apiculate; costa subpercurrent, ending well before apex, or rarely percurrent, distal abaxial surface smooth; medial laminal cells elongate, often ± rhomboidal, usually 3+:1, (30–)40–80(–110) µm, in diagonal rows, not collenchymatous, walls pitted; marginal cells indistinctly differentiated from medial cells, short-linear or rhomboidal, in 1–2(–3) rows. <b>Specialized</b> asexual reproduction absent. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous. <b>Seta</b> single or rarely double, orange-yellow, 2–5.5 cm, flexuose. <b>Capsule</b> pendent, yellowish brown, ovate, 2–2.5 mm; operculum conic-apiculate; exostome dark brown; endostome yellowish brown. <b>Spores</b> 31–40 µm.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Eurasia;circumtemperate to circumboreal.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Pseudobryum</i> consists of two species of which one (<i>P. cinclidioides</i>; n = 6) is in the flora area and the other [P. speciosum (Mitten) T. J. Koponen; n = 7] is Asiatic. The latter is differentiated also by leaf characters and polysety.</p>
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name=Pseudobryum
|author=Terry T. McIntosh;Steven G. Newmaster
|authority=(Kindberg) T. J. Koponen
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Mnium subg. Pseudobryum
|family=Mniaceae
|distribution=North America;Eurasia;circumtemperate to circumboreal.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Bot. Fenn.
|publication year=1968
|special status=
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|genus=Pseudobryum
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