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|accepted_name=Entosthodon attenuatus
|accepted_authority=(Dickson) Bryhn
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Kongel. Norske Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. (Trondheim)
|place=1908(8): 25. 1908,
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Bryum attenuatum
|authority=Dickson
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Entosthodon templetonii
|authority=(Smith) Schwägrichen
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Funaria attenuata
|authority=(Dickson) Lindberg
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Funaria templetonii
|authority=Smith
}}
|hierarchy=Funariaceae;Entosthodon;Entosthodon attenuatus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Funariaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Entosthodon]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Entosthodon attenuatus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 183
|treatment_page=page 185
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>2–5 mm, pale brownish yellow. <b>Leaves</b> variously contorted when dry, ovate to obovate or oblong-spathulate, imbricate, somewhat concave, mostly 2–3 mm long; margins crenulate-serrulate by inflated narrow thin-walled cells that often form a orangish border; apices narrowed to an acute tip terminating abruptly in a sharp, 1–2-celled apiculus; costa ending 3–5 cells before the tip; basal laminal cells rectangular (75–105 × 20–32 µm), distal cells irregularly hexagonal to oblong rectangular. <b>Seta</b> reddish, 6–10 mm, straight, not hygroscopic. <b>Capsule</b> elongate-pyriform from an apophysis about half the total length, 2–3 mm, somewhat sulcate when dry and empty; exothecial cells, scarcely thickened, narrowly oblong and transversely elongate in 5–7 rows proximal to the mouth; operculum planoconvex, peristome well developed, exostome teeth reddish brown, lanceolate with 4–7 thin trabeculae, slender, fragile tips, striate basally and papillose at the tips, endostome not seen. <b>Calyptra</b> cucullate, long-beaked, inflated around the capsule, large, smooth. <b>Spores</b> 27–35 µm, smooth, often faintly angled.</span><!--

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|habitat=Disturbed, seasonally wet, sandy soils along stream beds or roadside ditches
|elevation=moderate to high elevations
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Europe.
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name=Entosthodon attenuatus
|author=
|authority=(Dickson) Bryhn
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Entosthodon templetonii;Funaria attenuata;Funaria templetonii
|basionyms=Bryum attenuatum
|family=Funariaceae
|habitat=Disturbed, seasonally wet, sandy soils along stream beds or roadside ditches
|elevation=moderate to high elevations
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Europe.
|reference=None
|publication title=Kongel. Norske Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. (Trondheim)
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Entosthodon
|species=Entosthodon attenuatus
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