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|accepted_name=Saelania
|accepted_authority=Lindberg
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|title=Utkast Eur. Bladmoss.,
|place=35. 1878 ,
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|basionyms=
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|hierarchy=Ditrichaceae;Saelania
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ditrichaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Saelania]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Anders Thiodolf Saelan, 1834–1921, Finnish botanist
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 443, 444
|treatment_page=page 458
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>tufted, glaucous bluish green or sometimes yellowish green. <b>Stems</b> short or reaching 1.5 cm, simple or branched; rhizoids at base, papillose or smooth. <b>Leaves</b> somewhat flexuose or contorted when dry, narrowly lanceolate, gradually acuminate, margins plane or narrowly recurved and entire proximally, irregularly and often doubly toothed or serrate distally; costa 1, percurrent to short-excurrent, 1/5–1/3 width of leaf base; medial laminal cells smooth subquadrate to short-rectangular, smoth. <b>Specialized</b> asexual reproduction unknown. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous; perigonia terminal on well-developed branches; perichaetial leaves not differentiated. <b>Seta</b> yellow or yellow-brown, elongate, erect. <b>Capsule</b> erect and symmetric, exserted, yellow-brown, cylindric, ± longitudinally plicate when dry and empty; annulus of 2–3 rows of large, pale cells, persistent; operculum rostrate; peristome single, teeth16, split into 2 filaments, densely papillose. <b>Calyptra</b> cucullate. <b>Spores</b> globose, finely papillose.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Europe;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands (Hawaii;New Zealand).
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!--
--><p><i>Saelania</i> is morphologically close to <i>Ceratodon</i>, but differs in having the leaves a glaucous blue-green; seta yellow to yellow-brown; capsule yellow-brown, erect, and somewhat plicate but not strongly sulcate when dry; peristome reddish brown, densely papillose, divided to near the base into two unbordered filaments; and spores greenish to yellowish brown and larger, 15–20(–22) µm. In <i>Ceratodon</i> the leaves are yellowish green to brownish or reddish green; seta reddish to purplish; capsules dark reddish brown to purplish, erect to inclined or horizontal, and when dry usually strongly sulcate; peristome teeth dark red, papillose, divided to near the base into 2 filiform segments with pale borders and the segments often united at the nodes; and spores yellow to greenish yellow, and smaller (10–15 µm).</p>
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name=Saelania
|author=Rodney D. Seppelt
|authority=Lindberg
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
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|family=Ditrichaceae
|distribution=North America;Europe;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands (Hawaii;New Zealand).
|reference=None
|publication title=Utkast Eur. Bladmoss.,
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|genus=Saelania
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