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|accepted_name=Stereophyllum
|accepted_authority=Mitten
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot., suppl.:
|place=117. 1859
|year=1859
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Glossophyllum
|authority=(Müller Hal.) Hampe
|rank=genus
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Hypnum sect. Glossophyllum
|authority=Müller Hal.
|rank=section
}}
|hierarchy=Stereophyllaceae;Stereophyllum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Stereophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Stereophyllum]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek stereos, thick, and phyllon, leaf
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 472, 652
|treatment_page=page 470
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>in thin to dense mats, pale to yellow-green, sometimes brownish, dull. <b>Stems</b> with central strand absent or poorly developed; axillary hair apical cells 4. <b>Stem</b> and branch leaves similar, stiff, close, imbricate and somewhat contorted when dry, erect-spreading when moist, oblong-ovate to nearly lingulate, symmetric, not plicate; margins plane, entire or serrulate near apex; apex abruptly acute to obtuse, sometimes apiculate; costa 2/3–3/4 leaf length; laminal cell walls thick; medial and distal cells quadrate to rhomboidal, 1-papillose over lumina on both surfaces or sometimes smooth. <b>Perigonia</b> with leaves costate. <b>Perichaetia</b> at base of stems, leaves oblong-lanceolate, costate, proximal laminal cells rectangular, distal cells linear-flexuose. <b>Seta</b> orange to reddish, straight to somewhat flexuose. <b>Capsule</b> cernuous or rarely erect, orange to brown, ellipsoid to ovoid; exothecial cell walls thin; annulus persistent, 2- or 3-seriate, cell walls firm; operculum short-rostrate, sometimes oblique; exostome teeth shouldered, internal surface projecting; endostome finely papillose, basal membrane high, segments almost as long as exostome teeth, cilia 1–3, shorter than segments. <b>Spores</b> spheric to ovoid, 12–24 µm.</span><!--

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|distribution=sc;se United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands (Philippines);Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The second species in the genus, <i>Stereophyllum</i> linisii Enroth & B. C. Tan, was described in 2007 from the Philippines.</p>
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name=Stereophyllum
|authority=Mitten
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Glossophyllum;Hypnum sect. Glossophyllum
|basionyms=
|family=Stereophyllaceae
|distribution=sc;se United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands (Philippines);Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot., suppl.:
|publication year=1859
|special status=
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|genus=Stereophyllum
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