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|accepted_name=Myuroclada
|accepted_authority=Bescherelle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér.
|place=7, 17: 379. 1893
|year=1893
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brachytheciaceae;Myuroclada
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brachytheciaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Myuroclada]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek mys, mouse, oura, tail, and clados, branch, alluding to resemblance
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 405, 408, 431, 653, 655
|treatment_page=page 448
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>medium-sized, in loose mats, pale silvery green. <b>Stems</b> creeping to erect-arcuate, often attenuate, strongly julaceous, unbranched to weakly irregularly branched, branches terete-foliate; central strand present; pseudoparaphyllia orbicular-triangular; axillary hairs of 2–4 cells. <b>Stem</b> leaves erect-appressed, crowded, imbricate, orbicular to broadly ovate, concave, not or indistinctly plicate; base moderately decurrent; margins nearly entire to serrulate; apex very broadly acute to rounded, short-apiculate when young, blunt when mature; costa to mid leaf or slightly beyond, moderately stout, terminal spine absent; alar cells smaller than basal juxtacostal cells; laminal cells short-rhombic to rhombic. <b>Branch</b> leaves similar. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous. [Seta red-brown, smooth. <b>Capsule</b> inclined to horizontal, nearly black when old, oblong, weakly curved; annulus separating in fragments; operculum long-conic, obliquely rostrate; peristome xerocastique, perfect. <b>Calyptra</b> naked. <b>Spores</b> 12–16 µm].</span><!--

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|distribution=Alaska;e Asia (Japan;Korea;Russia);introduced in Europe. The above description of the sporophyte is from Asian material.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!--
--><p>The above description of the sporophyte is from Asian material.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=steere1956a
|text=Steere, W. C. and W. B. Schofield. 1956. Myuroclada, a genus new to North America. Bryologist 59: 1–5.
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name=Myuroclada
|author=Wilfred B. Schofield†
|authority=Bescherelle
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brachytheciaceae
|distribution=Alaska;e Asia (Japan;Korea;Russia);introduced in Europe. The above description of the sporophyte is from Asian material.
|reference=steere1956a
|publication title=Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér.
|publication year=1893
|special status=
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|genus=Myuroclada
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