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|accepted_name=Racopilaceae
|accepted_authority=Kindberg
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|hierarchy=Racopilaceae
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Racopilaceae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
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|treatment_page=page 246
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>medium-sized, in creeping mats, dark green. <b>Stems</b> short to elongate, subpinnate or irregularly branched, branches spreading, short, densely tomentose proximally; axillary hairs of 5 cells, basal cell short, brownish. <b>Leaves</b> usually dimorphic, in 4 rows, twisted-contorted when dry, spreading-erect when moist; lateral leaves in 2 rows, larger; dorsal leaves in 2 rows, usually much smaller; oblong-ovate [ovate-acuminate]; margins toothed distally, unbordered [bordered]; apex broadly acute [rounded]; costa single; medial laminal cells quadrate to rhomboidal, smooth [1-papillose]. <b>Sexual</b> condition [dioicous or monoicous] autoicous or synoicous; perigonia gemmiform, leaves small, apex long-awned; perichaetial leaves differentiated. <b>Seta</b> single or rarely 2 per perichaetium, elongate, smooth. <b>Capsule</b> exserted, curved [straight]; operculum beaked or rostrate; peristome double; exostome cross striolate proximally, slender and papillose distally; endostome basal membrane high, papillose, cilia present or absent. <b>Calyptra</b> cucullate or rarely mitrate, hairs usually few to many, long, delicate. <b>Spores</b> smooth [rough].</span><!--

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|distribution=Nearly worldwide;primarily tropical and subtropical regions. The second genus in Racopilaceae is Powellia Mitten with six Asian species.
|discussion=<p>Genera 2, species ca. 70 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The second genus in Racopilaceae is Powellia Mitten with six Asian species.</p>
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|id=reese1999a
|text=Reese, W. D. 1999. Racopilum tomentosum: First report of its sporophytes in Florida, and observations on its sexuality. Evansia 16: 59–60.
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name=Racopilaceae
|author=William D. Reese†
|authority=Kindberg
|rank=family
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|family=Racopilaceae
|illustrator=Patricia M. Eckel
|distribution=Nearly worldwide;primarily tropical and subtropical regions. The second genus in Racopilaceae is Powellia Mitten with six Asian species.
|reference=reese1999a
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