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|accepted_name=Entodontopsis
|accepted_authority=Brotherus in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam.
|place=227/228[I,3]: 895, fig. 657. 1907
|year=1907
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Hypnum subg. Complanato-hypnum
|authority=Hampe
}}
|hierarchy=Stereophyllaceae;Entodontopsis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Stereophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Entodontopsis]]</div></div>
|etymology=Genus Entodon and - opsis, resembling, alluding to similarity
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 470, 657
|treatment_page=page 471
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>in thin to dense mats, light green to yellowish or brownish, glossy. <b>Stems</b> with central strand absent or poorly developed; axillary hair apical cells 3[–6]. <b>Stem</b> and branch leaves similar, stiff to lax, close to distant, imbricate and somewhat contorted when dry, erect-spreading when moist, sometimes homomallous toward substrate, ovate-lanceolate to oblong-ovate, symmetric or asymmetric, not plicate, rarely wrinkled; margins plane or incurved proximally, serrulate to entire proximally, serrate to serrulate distally, sometimes entire throughout; apex acuminate, rarely acute or obtuse; costa 1/3–1/2 leaf length; laminal cell walls thin; distal cells broadly fusiform with tapering ends, sometimes short, rhomboidal in obtuse leaves, smooth or occasionally prorulose at distal ends on abaxial surface. <b>Perigonia</b> with leaves ecostate. <b>Perichaetia</b> at base of stems, leaves ovate, costate to ecostate within one perichaetium, proximal laminal cells laxly rectangular, distal cells linear-rhomboidal. <b>Seta</b> orange to reddish, straight to somewhat flexuose. <b>Capsule</b> erect, inclined, or cernuous, orange to brown, cylindric, ellipsoid, or ovoid; exothecial cell walls thin; annulus often falling with operculum, 2- or 3-seriate, cell walls firm; operculum obliquely conic to short-rostrate; exostome teeth shouldered, internal surface strongly to scarcely projecting; endostome smooth or papillose, basal membrane high to low, segments somewhat shorter than teeth, cilia 1–3, sometimes rudimentary, shorter than segments. <b>Spores</b> spheric to ovoid, 15–27 µm.</span><!--

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|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 17 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>A. J. Grout (1945) revised the North and Central American species, placing them in the genus <i>Stereophyllum</i>.</p>
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name=Entodontopsis
|author=
|authority=Brotherus in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Hypnum subg. Complanato-hypnum
|basionyms=
|family=Stereophyllaceae
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa.
|reference=None
|publication title=in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam.
|publication year=1907
|special status=
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|genus=Entodontopsis
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