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|accepted_name=Pyxidanthera
|accepted_authority=Michaux
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|place=1: 152, plate 17. 1803 ,
}}
|common_names=Pyxie-moss;pyxie;flowering-moss
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Diapensiaceae;Pyxidanthera
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Diapensiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pyxidanthera]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek pyxidos, small box, and antheros, anther, alluding to opening of anthers by transverse slit, simulating box lid
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 332, 333, 337
|treatment_page=page 336
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs,</b> creeping, mat-forming, caulescent, rhizomatous, from adventitiously rooted, slender, woody stems. <b>Stems</b>: main stems mostly prostrate to decumbent, branched; branches prostrate to decumbent. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, alternate, often densely congested, 2–7(–10) mm; petiole absent; blade narrowly oblanceolate to lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, margins entire, apex acute, minutely apiculate, surfaces glabrous or hairy, appearing 1-veined. <b>Inflorescences</b> solitary flowers, usually at tips of short, leafy branches, sessile. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals connate proximally; petals connate in proximal 2/5–1/2, corolla rotate, 2–5 mm, lobes white, margins entire or slightly erose; anthers 2-locular, basally spurred, transversely dehiscent; filaments adnate to corolla tube; staminodes absent. <b>x</b> = 6.</span><!--

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|distribution=se United States.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=godt1995a
|text=Godt, M. J. W. and J. L. Hamrick. 1995. Low levels of allozyme differentiation between Pyxidanthera (pyxie-moss) taxa (Diapensiaceae). Pl. Syst. Evol. 195: 159–168.
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|id=primack1975a
|text=Primack, R. B. and R. Wyatt. 1975. Variation and taxonomy of Pyxidanthera (Diapensiaceae). Brittonia 27: 115–118.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades narrowly oblanceolate to lanceolate, 3.5-7(-10) mm, those of fertile shoots ciliate along proximal margins, adaxial surface usually white-pilose on proximal 1/5-1/3.
|[[Pyxidanthera barbulata|Pyxidanthera barbulata]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades ovate-lanceolate to obovate-lanceolate, usually 2-4 mm, those of fertile shoots eciliate, adaxial surface white-pilose throughout.
|[[Pyxidanthera brevifolia|Pyxidanthera brevifolia]]
|}
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name=Pyxidanthera
|author=Bruce A. Sorrie;Alan S. Weakley;Guy L. Nesom
|authority=Michaux
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Diapensiaceae
|distribution=se United States.
|reference=godt1995a;primack1975a
|publication title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_663.xml
|genus=Pyxidanthera
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