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|accepted_name=Lyellia
|accepted_authority=R. Brown
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Trans. Linn. Soc. London
|place=12: 561. 1819 ,
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polytrichaceae;Lyellia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polytrichaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lyellia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Sir Charles Lyell, 1767–1849
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 122, 123, 124, 161
|treatment_page=page 159
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>robust, polytrichoid. <b>Stems</b> simple or rarely branched. <b>Leaves</b> with a sheathing base and divergent blade; sheath entire, hyaline-margined; limb firm, serrate-toothed in distal 1/3–1/2, with lamellae restricted to median portion of the limb, the lamina ± uniformly 2-stratose; lamellae entire, the marginal cells in section not differentiated, smooth. [Capsule ovoid, strongly dorsiventral, the upper surface flattened and concave with a narrow winged margin, lower surface rounded-convex, with hypophysis short, with conspicious stomata, guard cells surrounded by a circle of thin-walled, hyaline cells; operculum compressed-conic, with elongated oblique beak; peristome none; columella apex flattened and protruding from the central opening of a concave, thickened disc. <b>Calyptra</b> sparsely hairy to almost smooth. <b>Spores</b> echinulate.]</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;e Asia (including Siberia).
|discussion=<p>Species 4 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Lyellia</i> is a small genus with a disjunctive distribution, with representatives occurring in the Himalayas and eastward, and a single species, <i>L. aspera</i>, at high latitudes in arctic America and eastern Asia. The capsules are strongly dorsiventral, resembling those of Dawsonia in shape, but without a peristome. The flattened columella apex projects from the center of the disc like a stopper in a wash basin (Gary L. Smith 1971, fig. 25); the epiphragm remains embedded in the operculum. The hypophysis has prominent stomata, the guard cells surrounded by a ring of thin-walled, hyaline subsidiary cells, which are sharply differentiated from the surrounding cells of the exothecium.</p>
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name=Lyellia
|author=Gary L. Smith Merrill
|authority=R. Brown
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
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|basionyms=
|family=Polytrichaceae
|distribution=North America;e Asia (including Siberia).
|reference=None
|publication title=Trans. Linn. Soc. London
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|genus=Lyellia
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