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|accepted_name=Pseudobraunia
|accepted_authority=(Lesquereux & James) Brotherus in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam.
|place=222[I,3]: 715. 1905
|year=1905
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Braunia subg. Pseudobraunia
|authority=Lesquereux & James
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Hedwigiaceae;Pseudobraunia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Hedwigiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pseudobraunia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek pseudes, false, and genus Braunia, alluding to resemblance
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 84, 85, 90, 642
|treatment_page=page 89
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>medium-sized, red-brown or sometimes pale yellow-green to yellow-brown, sometimes hoary distally. <b>Stems</b> with stoloniform-flagelliform branches absent. <b>Leaves</b> ± closely appressed-imbricate, not plicate, 0.7–1.5 mm; margins recurved to just beyond mid leaf, plane in acumen, entire to subdenticulate at apex; apex somewhat to strongly secund and spreading when dry, erect- to wide-spreading when moist, acute, ± gradually acuminate, or piliferous, opaque to translucent white, flat, papillose proximally, smooth distally; alar cells ± isodiametric, smooth to mostly 1-papillose distally, walls even, thinner than laminal cells, region concolorous, excavate; mid basal laminal cells short-rectangular, becoming long-rectangular, 1-papillose, appearing smooth, papillae not in rows, walls thick, moderately porose, region concolorous or slightly more strongly yellow to orange-yellow at insertion or to 1/5 leaf length; medial cells 1 (or 2)-papillose over lumen, papillae simple, stoutly tuberculate, walls thick, coarsely and irregularly porose; distal cells similar to and concolorous with medial cells, smooth; apical cells hyaline. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous; perichaetial leaves similar to vegetative leaves or larger, to 3 mm, margins entire. <b>Vaginula</b> with paraphyses many, smooth, not extending onto developing calyptra. <b>Seta</b> pale yellow, (4.5–)5–9(–10) mm, slender, extending beyond perichaetial leaves. <b>Capsule</b> exserted, yellow- to red-brown, obpyriform to turbinate when dry, ovoid-pyriform when moist, 1–1.3 mm, longitudinally sulcate-ribbed when dry, smooth when moist, mouth wide; stomata phaneroporic; operculum conic, stoutly, bluntly, and obliquely short-rostrate. <b>Calyptra</b> cucullate, 2.5–3 mm, covering to below mid capsule, naked. <b>Spores</b> 24–28 µm, finely to coarsely vermiculate-papillose.</span><!--

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|distribution=w North America.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!--
--><p>Often the lumina of <i>Pseudobraunia</i> are a brighter color than the paler, thick cell walls, darkening at the border with the hyaline apex and at the insertion. Plants of both <i>Braunia</i> and <i>Pseudobraunia</i> are more yellow or yellow-orange than those of <i>Hedwigia</i>, which are often a paler or richer if somewhat sordid green. <i>Pseudobraunia</i> has a long, flexuose filiform apical process on its leaves and exserted capsules. The hair-points on the leaves are short, broad-based, and confluent with the narrowing apex; when long they are straight to subflexuose and occur in a 1-cellular series, appearing jointed at the cell ends. In contrast, <i>Hedwigia</i> has a rigid, more triangular white apical region and immersed capsules. The two species of <i>Braunia</i> in the flora area have essentially no hyaline apical differentiation.</p>
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name=Pseudobraunia
|author=
|authority=(Lesquereux & James) Brotherus in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Braunia subg. Pseudobraunia
|family=Hedwigiaceae
|distribution=w North America.
|reference=None
|publication title=in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam.
|publication year=1905
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Pseudobraunia
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