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|accepted_name=Conostomum
|accepted_authority=Swartz ex F. Weber & D. Mohr in F. Weber
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in F. Weber, Naturh. Reise Schweden,
|place=121. 1804
|year=1804
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Bartramiaceae;Conostomum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Bartramiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Conostomum]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek konos, cone, and stoma, opening, alluding to operculum
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 661, 663
|treatment_page=page 98
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>in dense tufts, glaucous or yellow-green. <b>Stems</b> 0.5–3 cm, erect, simple or 2-fid; pentagonal in cross section, hyalodermis present, epidermis not prorulose; radiculose proximally, rhizoids smooth. <b>Leaves</b> in 5 distinct rows, imbricate, appressed when dry or moist, narrowly lanceolate, 1-stratose; base not sheathing; margins slightly revolute in distal 1/2, serrulate near apex, teeth single; apex acuminate or rarely blunt; costa percurrent to excurrent, sometimes subpercurrent in proximal leaves, abaxial surface mammillose-toothed; basal laminal cells more lax than distal cells; distal cells rectangular to short-rhomboidal, smooth or mammillose at distal ends on both surfaces, walls thick. <b>Specialized</b> asexual reproduction unknown. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous [or autoicous]; perigonia cupulate or gemmiform; perichaetial leaves larger than stem leaves. <b>Seta</b> single, elongate, flexuose. <b>Capsule</b> erect to inclined, ovoid, wrinkled and furrowed when dry, mouth not small, not oblique; annulus absent; operculum conic, rostrate; peristome single or rarely absent; exostome teeth reddish orange to dark brown, linear-lanceolate, smooth throughout or finely papillose basally, apically connate. <b>Spores</b> spheric to reniform, coarsely papillose [to smooth].</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;South America;Europe;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands.
|discussion=<p>Species 7–15 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=frahm1996a
|text=Frahm, J.-P. et al. 1996b. Revision der Gattung Conostomum (Musci; Bartramiaceae). Trop. Bryol. 12: 97–114.
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name=Conostomum
|author=
|authority=Swartz ex F. Weber & D. Mohr in F. Weber
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Bartramiaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;South America;Europe;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands.
|reference=frahm1996a
|publication title=in F. Weber, Naturh. Reise Schweden,
|publication year=1804
|special status=
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|genus=Conostomum
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