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|accepted_name=Daltonia
|accepted_authority=Hooker & Taylor
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Muscol. Brit.,
|place=80, plates 3 [near upper left], 22 [lower center left & right]. 1818
|year=1818
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Daltoniaceae;Daltonia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Daltoniaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Daltonia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Rev. John Dalton, 1764 – 1843, British botanist and bryologist
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 251, 652
|treatment_page=page 252
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>glossy. <b>Stems</b> prostrate or suberect, branches short, ascending. <b>Leaves</b> erect, sometimes flexuose-twisted and contorted when dry, flexuose when moist, ovate-lanceolate, ligulate- to lance-acuminate, symmetric, straight, keeled; margins entire, strongly bordered, cells linear, incrassate, in several rows; costa ending before apex in distal 1/4; laminal cells usually uniformly rhomboidal to elongate-hexagonal, walls usually incrassate; basal cells sometimes rounded, longer, smooth. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous or synoicous. <b>Seta</b> roughened distally [smooth]. <b>Capsule</b> erect to subinclined; exothecial cells strongly collenchymatous; exostome teeth hygrocastique (teeth incurved when dry and reflexed when moist), densely papillose, with zigzag longitudinal lines, not striate, not furrowed; endostome segments linear, narrow, same length as teeth, perforate along keel. <b>Calyptra</b> smooth to somewhat roughened distally, basal fringe hairs dense. <b>Spores</b> papillose.</span><!--

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|distribution=nw North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Europe;Asia;Africa;Atlantic Islands;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 22 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=majestyk2011a
|text=Majestyk, P. 2011. A taxonomic treatment of Daltonia (Musci: Daltoniaceae) in the Americas. J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 5: 553–575.
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name=Daltonia
|author=
|authority=Hooker & Taylor
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Daltoniaceae
|distribution=nw North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Europe;Asia;Africa;Atlantic Islands;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia.
|reference=majestyk2011a
|publication title=Muscol. Brit.,
|publication year=1818
|special status=
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|genus=Daltonia
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