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|accepted_name=Trachyxiphium
|accepted_authority=W. R. Buck
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Brittonia
|place=39: 219. 1987
|year=1987
}}
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Pilotrichaceae;Trachyxiphium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pilotrichaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Trachyxiphium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek trachys, rough, and xiphion, little sword, alluding to leaves marginally roughened by serrations
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 255, 643
|treatment_page=page 256
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small [to large], soft, in dense mats, yellowish to brownish or golden green to nearly hyaline, glossy. <b>Stems</b> irregularly branched; hyalodermis absent. <b>Leaves</b> somewhat to occasionally clearly complanate, flaccid, somewhat flexuose, not crisped when dry, narrowly lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, infrequently asymmetric; margins plane or broadly or narrowly recurved on one side, entire proximally, serrulate in distal 1/3; apex slenderly long-acuminate; costa 1/2–2/3 leaf length, ending in base of acumen, parallel to slightly divergent, distal abaxial surface strongly serrulate; laminal cells long-rhomboidal to linear, narrow, elongate, smooth or sometimes prorulose by projecting distal cell ends; marginal cells not forming border. <b>Specialized</b> asexual reproduction absent. <b>Sexual</b> condition synoicous (sometimes also with male and female gametoecia); perichaetial leaf apex subulate. <b>Seta</b> orange-brown, smooth. <b>Capsule</b> erect, inclined, or pendulous, ovoid; annulus absent; operculum obliquely and narrowly long-rostrate. <b>Calyptra</b> conic-mitrate, base fringed, often split on one side, smooth or distally slightly scabrous.</span><!--

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|distribution=se United States;Mexico;Central America;South America;Pacific Islands (Cocos Island).
|discussion=<p>Species 15 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Species of <i>Trachyxiphium</i> occur in the Neotropics on wet soil, rock, and logs, in humid lowlands to mid elevations, occasionally upper montane forests, from near sea level to 3400 m (S. R. Gradstein et al. 2001).</p>
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name=Trachyxiphium
|authority=W. R. Buck
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Pilotrichaceae
|distribution=se United States;Mexico;Central America;South America;Pacific Islands (Cocos Island).
|reference=None
|publication title=Brittonia
|publication year=1987
|special status=
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|genus=Trachyxiphium
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