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|accepted_name=Conardia
|accepted_authority=H. Robinson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=33: 294. 1976
|year=1976
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Amblystegiaceae;Conardia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Amblystegiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Conardia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Henry Shoemaker Conard, 1874–1971, bryologist of Grinnell College, Iowa
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 263, 264, 266, 314, 384, 385, 394, 657
|treatment_page=page 313
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small, occasionally minute, light green or yellow. <b>Stems</b> irregularly branched, ± in one plane; hyalodermis absent, central strand present; paraphyllia absent; rhizoids or rhizoid initials on stem and abaxial costa or on lamina near leaf apex, often forming tomentum, strongly branched, warty-papillose; axillary hair distal cells 1–4, hyaline. <b>Stem</b> leaves erect to spreading, straight or slightly falcate, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, not plicate, 0.6–1.2 mm; base decurrent; margins plane or partly slightly incurved or recurved, finely denticulate, or often coarsely so near base, limbidia absent; apex acuminate, acumen plane or furrowed; costa single, ending in acumen, sometimes percurrent; alar cells differentiated, usually rectangular or sometimes quadrate, not inflated, region distinct but gradually delimited, transversely triangular; medial laminal cells linear or short-linear; marginal cells 1-stratose. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous. <b>Capsule</b> inclined, cylindric, slightly curved; peristome slightly reduced; exostome margins indistinctly dentate distally; endostome cilia usually 1 or 2. <b>Spores</b> 14–19 µm.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America;Europe;Asia;Atlantic Islands (Iceland).
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!--
--><p><i>Conardia</i> has the appearance of a small <i>Amblystegium</i>, but can be distinguished by the warty-papillose, much branched rhizoids that are frequently inserted on the abaxial costa or near the leaf apex; rhizoids can mostly be found in the basal portions of at least some shoots. In addition, the distal parts of the axillary hairs consist of 1–4 cells that are shorter and broader than the 1 or 2 narrow and delicate ones found in <i>Amblystegium</i>. The capsule is only slightly curved rather than curved throughout as in <i>Amblystegium</i> species.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=hedenas1989b
|text=Hedenäs, L. 1989d. On the taxonomic position of Conardia Robins. J. Bryol. 15: 779–783.
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name=Conardia
|author=Howard A. Crum†;Lars Hedenäs
|authority=H. Robinson
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Amblystegiaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America;Europe;Asia;Atlantic Islands (Iceland).
|reference=hedenas1989b
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1976
|special status=
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|genus=Conardia
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