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|accepted_name=Leptostomopsis
|accepted_authority=(Müller Hal. ex Brotherus) J. R. Spence & H. A. Ramsay
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=87: 70. 2005
|year=2005
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Brachymenium sect. Leptostomopsis
|authority=Müller Hal. ex Brotherus
|rank=section
|publication_title=in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam.
|publication_place=218[I,3]: 558. 1903
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Bryaceae;Leptostomopsis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Bryaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Leptostomopsis]]</div></div>
|etymology=Genus Leptostomum and Greek -opsis, resemblance
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 119, 122, 651
|treatment_page=page 147
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small, in dense cushions, sometimes turfs, or rarely gregarious, pale green-silver, pinkish, or yellow-silver. <b>Stems</b> 0.4–2 cm, sometimes julaceous, strongly branching by subfloral innovations; rhizoids many, micronemata and macronemata present on stems. <b>Leaves</b> imbricate when dry, erect to erect-spreading when moist, broadly ovate to spathulate, somewhat concave, 0.2–2 mm; base not decurrent; margins recurved or sometimes plane proximally, plane distally, serrulate to distinctly serrate near apex, 1-stratose, limbidium present or absent; apex broadly rounded to acute; costa long-excurrent, sometimes percurrent in proximal leaves, awn hyaline, denticulate to spinose, guide cells present; alar cells usually distinct in quadrate groups or sometimes transversely elongate in small groups; laminal areolation heterogeneous; proximal laminal cells usually quadrate to short-rectangular, 1–2:1; medial and distal cells hexagonal, rhomboidal, or almost vermicular, 3–6:1, walls thin to thick, not pitted. <b>Specialized</b> asexual reproduction absent. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous; perigonia and perichaetia terminal, leaves same size as vegetative leaves or usually larger, not forming rosette, inner leaves little differentiated. [Seta usually single, straight to somewhat twisted. <b>Capsule</b> erect, oblong or cylindric, 2–4 mm; hypophysis inconspicuous to well differentiated; operculum weakly convex, short-conic, not rostrate; peristome diplolepidous-alternate; exostome pale yellow or tan, sometimes reddish, teeth slender lanceolate; endostome separate or rarely adherent to exostome, basal membrane low, segments absent, cilia absent. <b>Spores</b> shed singly, not as tetrads, 17–25 µm, finely papillose, pale yellow-tan or brown].</span><!--

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|distribution=s United States;Mexico;Central America;South America;se Asia;Africa;mostly subtropical to tropical environments.
|discussion=<p>Species 10 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Leptostomopsis</i> is a distinctive genus superficially similar to Leptostomum. Recent molecular work suggests that the genus is basal to the remainder of Bryaceae. The genus was originally included in the polyphyletic <i>Brachymenium</i>. Although molecular work indicates that the genus should be placed in Bryaceae, morphologically it is close to Leptostomum and could be placed in Leptostomataceae. Plants of <i>Leptostomopsis</i> have reddish brown to yellow setae. The exostome teeth are not trabeculate.</p>
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|1
|Plants yellow-silver; leaf apices hyaline; costal awns hyaline; distal laminal cells 4-6:1, walls thick, somewhat sinuate.
|[[Leptostomopsis nivea|Leptostomopsis nivea]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Plants green-silver to pink-silver; leaf apices not hyaline; costal awns pigmented proximally, hyaline distally; distal laminal cells 3-4+:1, walls not thick or sinuate.
|[[Leptostomopsis systylia|Leptostomopsis systylia]]
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name=Leptostomopsis
|author=John R. Spence
|authority=(Müller Hal. ex Brotherus) J. R. Spence & H. A. Ramsay
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Brachymenium sect. Leptostomopsis
|family=Bryaceae
|distribution=s United States;Mexico;Central America;South America;se Asia;Africa;mostly subtropical to tropical environments.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=2005
|special status=
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|genus=Leptostomopsis
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