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|accepted_name=Vesicularia
|accepted_authority=(Müller Hal.) Müller Hal.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|place=23: 330. 1896
|year=1896
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Hypnum subsect. Vesicularia
|authority=Müller Hal.
|rank=subsection
|publication_title=Syn. Musc. Frond.
|publication_place=2: 233. 1851
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ectropothecium sect. Vesicularia
|authority=(Müller Hal.) Renauld
|rank=section
}}
|hierarchy=Hypnaceae;Vesicularia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Hypnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Vesicularia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin vesicularis, like a little bladder, alluding to lax areolation of laminal cells
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 516, 644
|treatment_page=page 570
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small to medium-sized, in thin to dense mats, usually pale green to yellowish, sometimes dark green, often shiny. <b>Stems</b> creeping, freely branched, irregularly branched to pinnate; hyalodermis absent, central strand present or absent; pseudoparaphyllia linear to foliose. <b>Leaves</b> dimorphic; ventral usually smaller than dorsal, ± appressed, lanceolate to usually acuminate; dorsal leaves spreading to secund, oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, somewhat asymmetric; base weakly decurrent; margins plane, entire or serrulate toward apex; apex acute or short- to long-acuminate, sometimes apiculate; costa double and short or ecostate; alar cells not or slightly differentiated; laminal cells smooth, walls thin; medial cells at least of lateral leaves relatively short. <b>Specialized</b> asexual reproduction absent. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous; perichaetial leaves erect, ovoid, oblong-ovoid, or oblong-ovate, apex subulate. <b>Seta</b> reddish, reddish orange, or yellow-orange. <b>Capsule</b> horizontal to pendent, ovoid to oblong-ovoid, ± asymmetric, constricted below mouth when dry; annulus differentiated; operculum apiculate to short-rostrate; peristome double; exostome teeth with external surface cross striolate, papillose distally; endostome basal membrane high, segments keeled, cilia usually in groups of 1–3. <b>Calyptra</b> naked. <b>Spores</b> spheric, finely papillose to nearly smooth.</span><!--

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|distribution=se United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America (Guatemala);n South America;Asia (India;Japan);Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar);Pacific Islands (Philippines);Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species 175–190 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Vesicularia</i> is a poorly studied genus, and many of its species will undoubtedly be synonymous with other taxa when the group is studied on a worldwide basis.</p>
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name=Vesicularia
|author=Stephen L. Timme†
|authority=(Müller Hal.) Müller Hal.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Ectropothecium sect. Vesicularia
|basionyms=Hypnum subsect. Vesicularia
|family=Hypnaceae
|distribution=se United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America (Guatemala);n South America;Asia (India;Japan);Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar);Pacific Islands (Philippines);Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|publication year=1896
|special status=
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|genus=Vesicularia
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