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|accepted_name=Brachydontium
|accepted_authority=Fürnrohr
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Flora
|place=10(2,Beil.): 37. 1827 ,
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Seligeriaceae;Brachydontium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Seligeriaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Brachydontium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek brachys, short, and odontion, small tooth, alluding to peristome teeth
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 320
|treatment_page=page 327
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>of acidic rock, often volcanic, brownish. <b>Alar</b> cells not differentiated. <b>Perigonial</b> leaves broader and shorter than vegetative leaves. <b>Perichaetial</b> leaves similar to vegetative leaves. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous or rarely dioicous. <b>Capsule</b> striate; annulus compound; peristome teeth papillose or absent. <b>Calyptra</b> mitrate to sometimes sub-cucullate.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Central America (Honduras);South America (Brazil;Colombia);Europe;Asia;Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species 9 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Brachydontium</i> is a genus of tiny, brownish plants of acidic rocks with striate capsules and peristomes ranging from well developed to completely absent. The species in the flora are olive green to brownish, stems ca. 0.6–2 mm; leaves 0.5–2.5 mm, erect, in ± two apparent rows, lanceolate-subulate, obtuse, leaf margins nearly entire, costa filling the subula; and the columella is not developed. They grow sympatrically on Mt..</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
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|1
|Peristome absent; distal laminal cells mostly isodiametric.
|[[Brachydontium olympicum|Brachydontium olympicum]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Peristome of 16 short, truncate teeth; distal laminal cells predominantly short-rhombic.
|[[Brachydontium trichodes|Brachydontium trichodes]]
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name=Brachydontium
|author=Dale H. Vitt;John R. Spence
|authority=Fürnrohr
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Seligeriaceae
|distribution=North America;Central America (Honduras);South America (Brazil;Colombia);Europe;Asia;Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Flora
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|genus=Brachydontium
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