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|accepted_name=Pleurozium
|accepted_authority=(Sullivant) Mitten
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Linn. Soc., Bot.
|place=12: 537. 1869
|year=1869
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Hypnum sect. Pleurozium
|authority=Sullivant
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Hylocomiaceae;Pleurozium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Hylocomiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pleurozium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek pleura, side, and ozos, branch, alluding to pinnate branching
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 326, 647
|treatment_page=page 334
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>creeping to erect-ascending, 1–3 mm wide across leafy stem, monopodial, irregularly to regularly 1 (or 2)-pinnate; paraphyllia absent. <b>Stem</b> leaves loosely appressed to spreading, heteromallous, not falcate-secund, distinctly crowded and imbricate at stem apices, ovate to elliptic, wrinkled when dry, not plicate or rugose when moist, 1.5–2.8 mm; base short-decurrent; margins entire except at apex; apex rounded to obtuse, often appearing bluntly apiculate because of broadly incurved margins; costa double to nearly ecostate, less than 1/4 leaf length; alar cells differentiated; laminal cells smooth. <b>Branch</b> leaves elliptic to lanceolate. <b>Capsule</b> inclined to horizontal; operculum conic; exostome teeth reticulate proximally; endostome segments broadly perforate.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America;South America;Eurasia;Africa;Atlantic Islands;cool temperate to subarctic zones.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Pleurozium quitense (Mitten) B. H. Allen & Magill is found in the Andes mountain range of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru.</p>
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name=Pleurozium
|author=
|authority=(Sullivant) Mitten
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Hypnum sect. Pleurozium
|family=Hylocomiaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America;South America;Eurasia;Africa;Atlantic Islands;cool temperate to subarctic zones.
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Linn. Soc., Bot.
|publication year=1869
|special status=
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|genus=Pleurozium
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