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|accepted_name=Plagiobryum
|accepted_authority=Lindberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Öfvers. Kongl. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh.
|place=19: 606. 1863
|year=1863
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Zieria
|authority=Schimper
|rank=genus
|publication_title=Coroll. Bryol. Eur.,
|publication_place=68. 1856,
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Bryaceae;Plagiobryum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Bryaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Plagiobryum]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek plagios, oblique, and bryon, moss, alluding to markedly oblique mouth of capsule
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 11, 119, 141, 149, 150, 153, 662
|treatment_page=page 152
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small to large, as turf or ± caespitose clumps, reddish brown to green or whitish to silvery green with pink tinge. <b>Stems</b> 0.3–1.5(–2) cm, julaceous or not, usually highly branched proximal to apex by sterile subperichaetial innovations; rhizoids usually many, micronemata present especially near base. <b>Leaves</b> of main shoot axes erect-spreading to appressed, spreading when moist, broadly ovate to lanceolate, flat to concave, 0.7–1.4 mm, larger toward stem apex; base usually slightly decurrent; margins plane or recurved, entire, 1-stratose, limbidium absent; apex ± reflexed; costa subpercurrent to short-excurrent, guide cells absent; alar cells similar to juxtacostal cells; laminal areolation heterogeneous; proximal laminal cells rectangular in older leaves, 2–5:1; medial and distal cells rhombic to rectangular, 2.5–5:1, walls firm, not pitted or porose. <b>Specialized</b> asexual reproduction absent. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous; perigonia and perichaetia terminal; perigonia budlike, leaves more ovate, more abruptly acuminate than perichaetial leaves; perichaetial leaves usually enlarged. <b>Seta</b> usually single, slightly curved to cygneous, often geniculate. <b>Capsule</b> horizontal to pendulous, clavate, gibbous, distinctly zygomorphic, 2–14 mm; hypophysis well developed; operculum small, mammillate to short-conic; peristome double; exostome yellow to brown, teeth narrow-lanceolate, shorter than endostome; endostome loosely adherent to exostome, basal membrane high, segments narrow, perforations narrow, cilia rudimentary. <b>Spores</b> adherent in tetrads, at least until maturity, 26–42 µm, densely papillose, yellowish to greenish brown or brown.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Central America;Europe;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands (New Zealand).
|discussion=<p>Species 9 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Plagiobryum</i> is easily distinguished when fruiting by the large, gibbous, and distinctly zygomorphic capsules. The stem is soft, erect, and slender, and in transverse section has cortical cells smaller than interior cells, walls thicker, in one to three layers, and central strand present; the rhizoids are red to red-brown. The innovations have smaller, more ovate leaves than the fertile stems. The marginal laminal cells are usually somewhat longer and narrower, in 1–3 rows, but do not form a distinct border. The capsules are furrowed when dry, narrowed to oblique mouths, and have a well-developed peristome with unbordered exostome teeth; the spores are elliptic.</p>
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Plants whitish or silvery green, usually with pink tinge; innovations julaceous; leaves of innovations imbricate, broadly ovate to nearly circular; margins plane; exostome 0.8-0.9 times endostome length; spores separate at maturity.
|[[Plagiobryum zieri|Plagiobryum zieri]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Plants red to reddish brown; innovations not julaceous; leaves of innovations erect to erect-spreading, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate; margins recurved; exostome to 1/2 endostome length; spores released in tetrads.
|[[Plagiobryum demissum|Plagiobryum demissum]]
|}
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name=Plagiobryum
|author=Terry A. J. Hedderson
|authority=Lindberg
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Zieria
|family=Bryaceae
|distribution=North America;Central America;Europe;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands (New Zealand).
|reference=None
|publication title=Öfvers. Kongl. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh.
|publication year=1863
|special status=
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|genus=Plagiobryum
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