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|accepted_name=Barbella
|accepted_authority=M. Fleischer ex Brotherus in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam.
|place=226[I,3]: 823, fig. 613. 1906
|year=1906
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Meteoriaceae;Barbella
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Meteoriaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Barbella]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin barba, beard, and - ella, diminutive, alluding to pendent secondary stems
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 479, 652
|treatment_page=page 481
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small, green [yellowish]. <b>Stems</b> loosely foliate, irregularly branched, branches elongate, pendent, loosely foliate; axillary hairs of 4–7 short cells, proximal cells light brown in older leaf axils. <b>Stem</b> leaves loosely imbricate, triangular-acuminate; base not auriculate; margins plane, serrate; costa slender, rarely ecostate; alar cells differentiated; medial laminal cells linear, not in rows diverging from costa, seriate-papillose or rarely smooth. <b>Branch</b> leaves spreading-complanate proximally, smaller and loosely imbricate distally; apex 1-seriate, filiform. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous [dioicous]. <b>Capsule</b> exserted, ovoid [ovoid-cylindric]; operculum short-rostrate; exostome teeth papillose or rarely smooth; endostome segments papillose, cilia rudimentary or absent. <b>Calyptra</b> naked [pilose]. <b>Spores</b> smooth or granular.</span><!--

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|distribution=Nearly worldwide;tropical and subtropical regions.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 40 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=reese1966a
|text=Reese, W. D. 1966. Barbella pendula (Sull.) Fleisch., a review of its distribution and comments on related species. Bryologist 69: 208–213.
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name=Barbella
|authority=M. Fleischer ex Brotherus in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl
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|parent rank=family
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|family=Meteoriaceae
|distribution=Nearly worldwide;tropical and subtropical regions.
|reference=reese1966a
|publication title=in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam.
|publication year=1906
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|genus=Barbella
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