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|accepted_name=Fabroniaceae
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|hierarchy=Fabroniaceae
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Fabroniaceae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 433
|treatment_page=page 477
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>very small, often in silky mats, green, yellow-green, or gray-green. <b>Stems</b> often erect-ascending, sparsely and irregularly branched, branches terete-foliate, often subjulaceous; radiculose in scattered tufts. <b>Leaves</b> ovate to oblong-lanceolate, rarely lanceolate, often somewhat concave; margins plane, denticulate, dentate, or ciliate-dentate, rarely entire; apex acute, acuminate, or long-acuminate, subulate to piliferous, rarely blunt; costa single, 1/3–2/3 leaf length, terminal spine sometimes present, small; alar cells quadrate in several rows; basal laminal cells rounded-rhomboidal to rhomboidal, quadrate to transversely rectangular in few rows along margins; medial and distal cells rhombic, rhomboidal, or elongate-rhombic, 30–45 × 9–12 µm, smooth; apical cells linear. <b>Specialized</b> asexual reproduction apparently by foliose pseudoparaphyllia. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous. <b>Seta</b> single, light yellow, erect, smooth. <b>Capsule</b> with neck short, wrinkled when old, mouth often flared with age; exothecial cells +\- isodiametric, walls sinuate, suboral cells transversely elongate, angular, walls straight; stomata present in neck; annulus absent; operculum conic, umbonate to mammillate; peristome single, rarely absent, erect-spreading, sometimes recurved when dry, incurved when moist; exostome teeth 16, usually connate in pairs, red-brown, broadly lanceolate, blunt, 0.3 mm, densely papillose-striolate. <b>Calyptra</b> cucullate. <b>Spores</b> 9–14 µm, coarsely papillose or smooth.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Eurasia;Africa;Atlantic Islands;Pacific Islands (Hawaii;New Zealand);Australia.
|discussion=<p>Genera 5, species ca. 17 (1 genus, 2 species in the flora).</p>
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name=Fabroniaceae
|author=Terry T. McIntosh
|authority=Schimper
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|family=Fabroniaceae
|illustrator=Patricia M. Eckel
|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Eurasia;Africa;Atlantic Islands;Pacific Islands (Hawaii;New Zealand);Australia.
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