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|accepted_name=Drummondia
|accepted_authority=Hooker in T. Drummond
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in T. Drummond, Musc. Amer.,
|place=62. 1828
|year=1828
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orthotrichaceae;Drummondia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orthotrichaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Drummondia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Thomas Drummond, 1780 – 1835, Scottish botanist who collected extensively on two expeditions to North America
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 12, 38, 41, 653
|treatment_page=page 40
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>medium-sized, in loose mats. <b>Stems</b> creeping, branches erect. <b>Leaves</b> erect-appressed and stiff when dry, spreading to wide-spreading when moist, broadly lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, not rugose; margins entire; apex obtuse, acute, or cuspidate; costa ending just below apex; basal laminal cells rectangular to quadrate; distal cells ± rounded-quadrate, 6–10 µm, smooth; marginal cells not distinct from basal. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous; perichaetial leaves longer than stem leaves. <b>Seta</b> 2–3.5 mm. <b>Capsule</b> long-exserted, ovate to ovate-oblong, wrinkled when old and dry, not constricted below mouth; stomata absent; peristome single; exostome teeth 16, smooth. <b>Calyptra</b> cucullate, long-conic, smooth, naked, not plicate, covering distal 1/3 of capsule. <b>Spores</b> isosporous, multicellular.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;ne Mexico;South America;Asia.
|discussion=<p>Species 6 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Drummondia</i> is characterized by branched, prostrate stems and cucullate calyptrae.</p>
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name=Drummondia
|authority=Hooker in T. Drummond
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orthotrichaceae
|distribution=North America;ne Mexico;South America;Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=in T. Drummond, Musc. Amer.,
|publication year=1828
|special status=
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|genus=Drummondia
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