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|accepted_name=Heterocladium
|accepted_authority=Schimper in P. Bruch and W. P. Schimper
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in P. Bruch and W. P. Schimper, Bryol. Europ.
|place=5: 151, plates 479, 480. 1852
|year=1852
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Pterigynandraceae;Heterocladium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pterigynandraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Heterocladium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek heteros, differing, and kladion, branchlet, alluding to growth form
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 341, 363, 366, 369, 642
|treatment_page=page 368
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>in wiry wefts, dark green to olive green, occasionally yellowish. <b>Stems</b> irregularly branched to pinnate; paraphyllia few or absent. <b>Leaves</b> appressed or squarrose, imbricate, dimorphic, stem leaves ovate-acuminate, branch leaves ovate; margins plane, serrate, serrulate, or papillose-serrate; apex acute to acuminate; costa single, short, usually 2-fid or double to mid leaf, broad basally; alar cells not differentiated; laminal cells quadrate to rhomboidal, strongly papillose or smooth, walls thickened; basal and juxtacostal cells elongate. <b>Capsule</b> horizontal, short-cylindric, curved.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America (El Salvador);South America;Europe;Asia.
|discussion=<p>Species 9 (3 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Heterocladium</i> frequently has elongate to flagellate branches. The seta is 0.1–0.2 cm and smooth; the capsule is brown; the operculum is conic-apiculate to short-rostrate; the peristome is perfect, with 2 or 3 elongate, nodose cilia; and the spores are 10–18 µm and essentially smooth.</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Laminal cells smooth; leaves squarrose-spreading when dry.
|[[Heterocladium procurrens|Heterocladium procurrens]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Laminal cells smooth or papillose; leaves spreading to erect-appressed when dry
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Laminal cell papillae 2-4 per lumen; stem epidermal cells multipapillose; leaf margins papillose-serrate.
|[[Heterocladium macounii|Heterocladium macounii]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Laminal cell papillae 1 at distal ends; basal cells smooth; stem epidermal cells smooth; leaf margins serrate to serrulate.
|[[Heterocladium dimorphum|Heterocladium dimorphum]]
|}
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name=Heterocladium
|author=Robert E. Magill
|authority=Schimper in P. Bruch and W. P. Schimper
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Pterigynandraceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America (El Salvador);South America;Europe;Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=in P. Bruch and W. P. Schimper, Bryol. Europ.
|publication year=1852
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V28/V28_578.xml
|genus=Heterocladium
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