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|accepted_name=Limbella
|accepted_authority=(Müller Hal.) Brotherus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Bernice P. Bishop Mus.
|place=40: 23. 1927
|year=1927
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Limbella
|authority=Müller Hal
|rank=unranked
|publication_title=in H. G. A. Engler, Forschungsr. Gazelle
|publication_place=4: 37. 1889
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Hypnodendron subg. Limbella
|authority=(Müller Hal.) Brotherus
|rank=subgenus
}}
|hierarchy=Amblystegiaceae;Limbella
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Amblystegiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Limbella]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin limbus, border, and -ella, diminutive, alluding to limbate leaf margins
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 263, 264, 318, 652
|treatment_page=page 317
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small to large, yellow-green to blackish. <b>Stems</b> coarse, often dendroid, irregularly branched to subpinnate beyond ± naked stem; hyalodermis absent, central strand present; paraphyllia absent; rhizoids at stem base, densely matted, not forming tomentum, smooth; axillary hair distal cells 4–7, hyaline. <b>Stem</b> leaves spreading, straight or incurved, ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, not plicate, 1.5–3.5 mm; base not decurrent; margins plane, serrulate to serrate, occasionally entire, limbidia conspicuous or poorly developed, usually submarginal, (2–)4-stratose, cells incrassate; apex acuminate to subulate, or cuspidate; costa single, strong, percurrent to short-excurrent; alar cells undifferentiated; basal laminal cells usually oblong; distal cells subquadrate to rhomboidal, 3–36 × 3–18 µm. <b>Branch</b> leaves similar. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous. [Capsule horizontal to cernuous, oblong-cylindric, asymmetric, sometimes arcuate; peristome hypnoid; exostome margins dentate; endostome cilia appendiculate. <b>Spores</b> 14–18 µm].</span><!--

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|distribution=Oreg.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii).
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Species of <i>Limbella</i> have been included previously in Sciaromium (Mitten) Mitten, a synonym of Echinodium Juratzka (S. P. Churchill 1986). <i>Limbella</i> tricostata (Sullivant) Brotherus is endemic to Hawaii.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=christy1987a
|text=Christy, J. A. 1987. Limbella fryei (Williams) Ochyra distinct from L. tricostata (Sull.) C. M. (Musci: Amblystegiaceae). J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 63: 395–410.
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|id=ochyra1987a
|text=Ochyra, R. 1987b. On the taxonomy and family placement of the moss genus Limbella (C. Müll.) Broth. J. Bryol. 14: 465–485.
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name=Limbella
|author=John A. Christy
|authority=(Müller Hal.) Brotherus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Hypnodendron subg. Limbella
|basionyms=Limbella
|family=Amblystegiaceae
|distribution=Oreg.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii).
|reference=christy1987a;ochyra1987a
|publication title=Bull. Bernice P. Bishop Mus.
|publication year=1927
|special status=
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|genus=Limbella
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