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|accepted_name=Homalotheciella
|accepted_authority=(Cardot) Brotherus in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam.
|place=232/233[I,3]: 1133. 1908
|year=1908
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Homalothecium sect. Homalotheciella
|authority=Cardot
|rank=section
|publication_title=Bull. Herb. Boissier
|publication_place=7: 374. 1899
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brachytheciaceae;Homalotheciella
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brachytheciaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Homalotheciella]]</div></div>
|etymology=Genus Homalothecium and Latin - ella, diminutive, alluding to resemblance
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 405, 406, 656
|treatment_page=page 438
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small, in dense mats, yellowish. <b>Stems</b> creeping, loosely imbricate-foliate, not julaceous, regularly or irregularly pinnate, branches terete-foliate; central strand present, weak; pseudoparaphyllia short-ovate; axillary hairs of 2 cells. <b>Stem</b> leaves erect, often homomallous, closely arranged, ovate, concave, not plicate; base scarcely decurrent; margins serrate; apex slender-acuminate; costa to mid leaf or beyond, slender, sometimes indistinct, terminal spine absent; alar cells quadrate; laminal cells elongate. <b>Branch</b> leaves similar. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous; perichaetia gemmiform, axillary on stem. <b>Seta</b> light brown, papillose. <b>Capsule</b> erect, brown, ovoid or slightly asymmetric; annulus not separating; operculum obliquely rostrate; peristome hygrocastique, modified; endostome inconspicuous, adherent to exostome. <b>Calyptra</b> bearing few slender 1-seriate hairs. <b>Spores</b> 18–25 µm.</span><!--

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|distribution=e North America;Central America (Guatemala);South America (Guyana).
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (or 3) (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Homalotheciella
|author=William D. Reese†
|authority=(Cardot) Brotherus in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Homalothecium sect. Homalotheciella
|family=Brachytheciaceae
|distribution=e North America;Central America (Guatemala);South America (Guyana).
|reference=None
|publication title=in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam.
|publication year=1908
|special status=
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|genus=Homalotheciella
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