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|accepted_name=Zelometeorium
|accepted_authority=Manuel
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Hattori Bot. Lab.
|place=43: 110, figs. 5 – 9. 1978
|year=1978
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brachytheciaceae;Zelometeorium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brachytheciaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Zelometeorium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek zelos, emulation, and genus Meteorium, alluding to similarity
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 404, 405, 655
|treatment_page=page 468
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>large, in intricate tangles, sometimes distally filiform, green or more commonly yellowish to brownish, blackish in old parts. <b>Stems</b> both creeping and pendent flexuose, terete-foliate, unevenly branched, sometimes fairly regularly pinnate, branches terete-foliate; central strand weak, sometimes absent; pseudoparaphyllia broadly triangular; axillary hairs of 3 or 4 cells. <b>Stem</b> leaves in dense foliage erect-spreading to squarrose from clasping base, broadly ovate; base cordate; margins subentire to serrulate; apex acute to acuminate; costa to 60–80% leaf length, slender, terminal abaxial tooth small; laminal cells linear; basal juxtacostal cells short-rectangular; leaves in loose foliage erect to erect-spreading from clasping base, narrowly to broadly ovate; base auriculate; apex abruptly acuminate; costa to 30–70% leaf length, terminal spine absent; submarginal alar cells in leaf corners, usually only 2–4, sometimes slightly enlarged and pellucid; laminal cells linear; basal juxtacostal cells shorter. <b>Branch</b> leaves not differentiated. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous; perichaetial leaves erect, acumen erect to spreading, costa extending to base of acumen. [Seta reddish, short, rough. <b>Capsule</b> erect, brownish, cylindric, straight; annulus separating by fragments; operculum conic-rostrate; peristome hygrocastique, modified. <b>Calyptra</b> mitrate, pilose. <b>Spores</b> 14–23 µm].</span><!--

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|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;c Africa;Pacific Islands (Galapagos Islands).
|discussion=<p>Species 5 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Zelometeorium</i> has long been treated as a member of the tropical and subtropical family Meteoriaceae, although its closest relative, Meteoridium, was considered a member of Brachytheciaceae by some authors (M. A. Lewis 1992). Results of molecular phylogenetics (M. S. Ignatov and S. Huttunen 2002) definitely indicate the position of both within Brachytheciaceae, a sister family to Meteoriaceae. Sporophytes are very rare, and the description is based on Latin American plants.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=manuel1977a
|text=Manuel, M. G. 1977. A monograph of the genus Zelometeorium Manuel, gen. nov. (Bryopsida: Meteoriaceae). J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 43: 107–126.
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name=Zelometeorium
|author=Michael S. Ignatov;William D. Reese†
|authority=Manuel
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brachytheciaceae
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;c Africa;Pacific Islands (Galapagos Islands).
|reference=manuel1977a
|publication title=J. Hattori Bot. Lab.
|publication year=1978
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|genus=Zelometeorium
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