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|accepted_name=Hookeria
|accepted_authority=Smith
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Trans. Linn. Soc. London
|place=9: 275, plate 23. 1808
|year=1808
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Hookeriaceae;Hookeria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Hookeriaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Hookeria]]</div></div>
|etymology=For William Jackson Hooker, 1785 – 1865, British botanist and first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 17, 248, 255, 644
|treatment_page=page 249
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>dorsiventral, soft, flaccid, somewhat contorted when dry, whitish to light green or pale yellow. <b>Stems</b> 1–5(–7.5) cm, fleshy, succulent, sparsely and irregularly branched; cortical cells large, central strand distinct; paraphyllia absent; pseudoparaphyllia filamentous or absent; rhizoids few, on leaf apices, hyaline to brown, unbranched; axillary hairs hyaline, of 2–4 cells. <b>Leaves</b> ovate, oblong-ovate, elliptic, or broadly lanceolate, 2–4.5(–6) mm; base somewhat decurrent; laminal cells broadly oblong-hexagonal, oblong-rhomboidal, or short-rectangular, 100–200(–250) µm, pellucid, walls thin, sometimes heteromorphic with smaller cell-pairs scattered throughout leaf; distal cells sometimes smaller; marginal cells elongate. <b>Seta</b> (0.8–)1–2(–2.5) cm, flexuose-curved, stout. <b>Capsule</b> oblong-cylindric or ellipsoid, 1.5–2 mm, neck short; exothecial cells subvesiculose; stomata in neck, phaneropore; annulus 1- or 2-seriate, weakly deciduous, cells large; operculum conic, long-rostrate; exostome teeth dark red, trabeculate, bordered, cross striolate basally, papillose distally; endostome pale, finely papillose, segments narrowly perforate on keel. <b>Calyptra</b> shortly conic-mitrate, 2–2.5 mm. <b>Spores</b> (10–)12–17 µm, smooth to scarcely or minutely papillose.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Eurasia;Africa;Atlantic Islands;Pacific Islands.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Species of <i>Hookeria</i> are readily separated from other pleurocarpous mosses in the flora area by their absence of costa, complete lack of border, and very large laminal cells that are observable with a hand lens. When moistened, the plants appear almost transparent or pellucid. One species of <i>Hookeria</i> has a tropical distribution but also occurs in the temperate zone; the other is a north temperate species of both the New and Old Worlds.</p>
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf apices acute; laminal cells (except rhizoid initials at apex) ± homogeneous; marginal laminal cells narrower than medial cells.
|[[Hookeria acutifolia|Hookeria acutifolia]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf apices obtuse; laminal cells with scattered pairs of smaller cells, one relatively smaller and quadrate, resembling rhizoid initials at apex; marginal laminal cell width equal to medial cells.
|[[Hookeria lucens|Hookeria lucens]]
|}
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|author=
|authority=Smith
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|synonyms=
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|family=Hookeriaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Eurasia;Africa;Atlantic Islands;Pacific Islands.
|reference=None
|publication title=Trans. Linn. Soc. London
|publication year=1808
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|genus=Hookeria
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