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|accepted_name=Palamocladium
|accepted_authority=Müller Hal.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Flora
|place=82: 465. 1896
|year=1896
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brachytheciaceae;Palamocladium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brachytheciaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Palamocladium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek palame, palm, and clados, branch, alluding to spreading branches, although inappropriately
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 405, 406, 656
|treatment_page=page 451
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>large, in moderately loose tufts, deep green to brownish or olive green. <b>Stems</b> creeping to ascending, moderately to very densely terete-foliate, irregularly pinnate, branches terete-foliate; central strand weak; pseudoparaphyllia acute; axillary hairs of 3–6 cells. <b>Stem</b> leaves erect, imbricate, lanceolate-triangular, ovate-lanceolate, or lanceolate, weakly concave, deeply plicate, or not plicate in slender plants; base slightly auriculate proximally; margins coarsely serrate; apex gradually tapered, narrowly acute, or somewhat acuminate; costa subpercurrent, slender, terminal spine small, inconspicuous; alar cells subquadrate, small, region of 10–15 × 5–8 cells; laminal cells elongate, relatively short, walls moderately thick; basal juxtacostal cells short-ovate. <b>Branch</b> leaves similar, somewhat narrower, somewhat shorter. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous or phyllodioicous; perichaetial leaf apex reflexed. [Seta red-brown, smooth. <b>Capsule</b> erect, reddish brown, ovoid-cylindric; annulus separating by fragments; operculum long, gradually tapered. <b>Calyptra</b> naked. <b>Spores</b> 9–20 µm].</span><!--

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|distribution=sc;se United States;Mexico;Central America;South America;sw;e Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar);w Pacific Islands;tropical to south temperate regions.
|discussion=<p>Species 3–6 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Palamocladium</i> was included in <i>Homalothecium</i> by H. Robinson (1962), but this decision was not accepted by H. A. Crum and L. E. Anderson (1981) or H. Hofmann (1997). According to M. S. Ignatov and S. Huttunen (2002), these genera belong in different subfamilies. <i>Palamocladium</i> can be recognized by narrow, rigid, and, when well developed, plicate leaves. Although these characters are the same as for <i>Homalothecium</i>, <i>Palamocladium</i> appears superficially different, as its leaves are erect to somewhat spreading when dry whereas more appressed in <i>Homalothecium</i>. The plants are olive or brownish and rather oily; in <i>Homalothecium</i> they are rich golden and rather silky. Microscopically, the coarse serration in the acumen is helpful in species recognition, as well as the extensive groups of small alar cells forming opaque areas.</p>
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|id=hofmann1997b
|text=Hofmann, H. 1997b. A monograph of the genus Palamocladium (Brachytheciaceae, Musci). Lindbergia 22: 3–20.
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name=Palamocladium
|author=Michael S. Ignatov
|authority=Müller Hal.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
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|family=Brachytheciaceae
|distribution=sc;se United States;Mexico;Central America;South America;sw;e Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar);w Pacific Islands;tropical to south temperate regions.
|reference=hofmann1997b
|publication title=Flora
|publication year=1896
|special status=
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|genus=Palamocladium
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