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|accepted_name=Trichodon
|accepted_authority=Schimper
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Coroll. Bryol. Eur.,
|place=36. 1856 ,
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ditrichaceae;Trichodon
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ditrichaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Trichodon]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek trichos, hair, and odon, tooth, alluding to slender divisions of peristome
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 443, 444, 467
|treatment_page=page 459
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>scattered or in loose tufts, light- to yellowish green. <b>Stems</b> 0.2–0.4 cm, simple; rhizoids at base, papillose. <b>Leaves</b> slightly contorted when dry, subulate, tubulose, base broad and sheathing; margins plane or incurved, serrate to enlarged portion of leaf base; costa percurrent to excurrent, filling distal part of subula, strongly prorulose on abaxial surface; medial laminal cells rectangular, sometimes quadrate and irregularly angled on margins, smooth or prorulose. <b>Specialized</b> asexual reproduction sometimes present, as smooth, round or irregularly shaped tubers on rhizoids. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous; male and female plants about the same size; perichaetial leaves not differentiated. <b>Seta</b> yellow to red, elongate, erect. <b>Capsule</b> erect to inclined, exserted, yellowish to reddish brown, cylindric, slightly curved or sometimes straight, smooth; annulus of 1–3 rows of large cells, deciduous; operculum conic to short-rostrate; peristome single, teeth 16, divided nearly to base to form two filiform segments, papillose. <b>Calyptra</b> cucullate. <b>Spores</b> globose, minutely papillose.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Europe;Asia in boreal and arctic areas.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=ireland1978a
|text=Ireland, R. R. 1978. Trichodon in North America. Bryologist 81: 150–154.
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name=Trichodon
|author=Robert R. Ireland Jr.
|authority=Schimper
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
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|family=Ditrichaceae
|distribution=North America;Europe;Asia in boreal and arctic areas.
|reference=ireland1978a
|publication title=Coroll. Bryol. Eur.,
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|genus=Trichodon
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