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|accepted_name=Taxiphyllum alternans
|accepted_authority=(Cardot) Z. Iwatsuki
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Hattori Bot. Lab.
|place=26: 67. 1963
|year=1963
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Isopterygium alternans
|authority=Cardot
|rank=species
|publication_title=Beih. Bot. Centralbl.
|publication_place=17: 37, fig. 23. 1904
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Hypnaceae;Taxiphyllum;Taxiphyllum alternans
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Hypnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Taxiphyllum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Taxiphyllum alternans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 567
|treatment_page=page 568
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>in thin mats, light to yellowish green or yellowish brown. <b>Stems</b> 6 cm, 3–5 mm wide, complanate-foliate; sometimes radiculose ventrally. <b>Leaves</b> spreading, distant, becoming close and loosely imbricate at stem apices, ovate to broadly ovate-lanceolate, symmetric or asymmetric, somewhat concave or flat, 1.5–3.5 × 0.8–1.6 mm; margins plane or rarely narrowly recurved just beyond base, serrulate to entire; apex acuminate to filiform-acuminate, frequently twisted; costa double, short, one branch often 1/3–1/2 leaf length, rarely ecostate; alar cells few, quadrate to long-rectangular, 14–43 × 14–20 µm, in 1–3+ rows, 2–5 cells in marginal row; laminal cells smooth; medial cells 84–156 × 9–12 µm. <b>Sporophytes</b> unknown.</span><!--

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|habitat=Soil, humus, exposed tree roots, rotten wood, logs in swamps, calcareous boulders beside streams and waterfalls
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (0-500 m)
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;La.;Md.;N.C.;S.C.;Asia.
|discussion=<p><i>Taxiphyllum alternans</i> is rare in North America. The species is recognized by leaves that are distant, ovate to broadly ovate-lanceolate with acuminate to filiform-acuminate, frequently twisted apices, plane margins, and 2–5 quadrate to short-rectangular cells in marginal rows. The species occurs in a few localities in the southeastern United States with disjunct occurrences in Maryland (Charles and Montgomery counties). This species has sometimes been confused with <i>Plagiothecium cavifolium</i> (Bridel) Z. Iwatsuki, but all <i>Taxiphyllum</i> species differ from <i>Plagiothecium</i> microscopically by their nondecurrent leaves and the presence of foliose pseudoparaphyllia.</p>
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name=Taxiphyllum alternans
|authority=(Cardot) Z. Iwatsuki
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Isopterygium alternans
|family=Hypnaceae
|habitat=Soil, humus, exposed tree roots, rotten wood, logs in swamps, calcareous boulders beside streams and waterfalls
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (0-500 m)
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;La.;Md.;N.C.;S.C.;Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Hattori Bot. Lab.
|publication year=1963
|special status=
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|genus=Taxiphyllum
|species=Taxiphyllum alternans
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