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|accepted_name=Pseudoscleropodium
|accepted_authority=(Limpricht) M. Fleischer
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Musc. Buitenzorg
|place=4: 1136. 1923
|year=1923
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Scleropodium sect. Pseudoscleropodium
|authority=Limpricht
|publication_title=Laubm. Deutschl.
|publication_place=3: 142. 1896 (as Pseudo-Scleropodium)
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brachytheciaceae;Pseudoscleropodium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brachytheciaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pseudoscleropodium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek pseudo- , false, and genus Scleropodium
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 405, 408, 656
|treatment_page=page 452
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>large, in loose mats, yellowish to golden green. <b>Stems</b> reclining to suberect, julaceous, regularly to irregularly pinnate, branches loosely terete-foliate; central strand present; pseudoparaphyllia orbicular-triangular; axillary hairs of 4–9 cells. <b>Stem</b> leaves erect or appressed, crowded and imbricate to loosely arranged, broadly ovate to oblong, strongly concave, weakly plicate when dry; base scarcely decurrent; margins entire to weakly toothed; apex gradually tapered, rounded-obtuse, apiculate; costa to 30–70% leaf length, slender, terminal spine absent; alar cell walls thick; laminal cells linear-flexuose, 10:1. <b>Branch</b> leaves similar. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous; [inner perichaetial leaves erect, apex subulate-acuminate. <b>Seta</b> brown when mature, smooth. <b>Capsule</b> inclined to pendulous, reddish brown, oblong-cylindric, curved; annulus well defined, of 2 rows of cells; operculum bluntly conic. <b>Calyptra</b> naked. <b>Spores</b> 11–13 µm].</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe;introduced nearly worldwide;primarily in temperate areas.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=lawton1960a
|text=Lawton, E. 1960. Pseudoscleropodium purum in the Pacific Northwest. Bryologist 63: 235–237.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=miller2000a
|text=Miller, N. G. 2000. First records of a European moss, Pseudoscleropodium purum, naturalized in New England. Rhodora 102: 514–517.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=miller2001a
|text=Miller, N. G. and N. Trigoboff. 2001. A European feather moss, Pseudoscleropodium purum, naturalized widely in New York State in cemeteries. Bryologist 104: 98–103.
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name=Pseudoscleropodium
|author=Wilfred B. Schofield†
|authority=(Limpricht) M. Fleischer
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Scleropodium sect. Pseudoscleropodium
|family=Brachytheciaceae
|distribution=Europe;introduced nearly worldwide;primarily in temperate areas.
|introduced=true
|reference=lawton1960a;miller2000a;miller2001a
|publication title=Musc. Buitenzorg
|publication year=1923
|special status=
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|genus=Pseudoscleropodium
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