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|accepted_name=Myurella
|accepted_authority=Schimper
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in P. Bruch and W. P. Schimper, Bryol. Europ.
|place=6: 39, plate 560. 1853
|year=1853
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Pterigynandraceae;Myurella
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pterigynandraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Myurella]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek myos, mouse, and oura, tail, alluding to appearance of branches
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 366, 371, 638, 639, 642
|treatment_page=page 370
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>threadlike, pale green, yellow-green, or glaucous green. <b>Stems</b> simple to irregularly branched; paraphyllia absent. <b>Leaves</b> erect to wide-spreading, imbricate or widely spaced, round to ovate; margins erect, subentire, serrulate, or spinose-dentate; apex obtuse, acuminate, or apiculate; costa single, double, short, weak, or almost ecostate; alar cells not differentiated; laminal cells rhomboidal, faintly prorulose to strongly 1-papillose abaxially, walls firm. <b>Capsule</b> erect to nearly horizontal, cylindric, symmetric.</span><!--

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|distribution=Nearly worldwide except Antarctica.
|discussion=<p>Species 9 (3 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Species of <i>Myurella</i> are small, slender plants of calcareous rock shelves and calcareous moist soil, mostly in boreal and arctic zones. The capsules are smooth.</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Laminal cells 1-papillose abaxially.
|[[Myurella sibirica|Myurella sibirica]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Laminal cells faintly prorulose abaxially
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaves imbricate, erect; apices rounded-obtuse to occasionally short-apiculate.
|[[Myurella julacea|Myurella julacea]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaves distant, erect to spreading; apices shortly acuminate-apiculate.
|[[Myurella tenerrima|Myurella tenerrima]]
|}
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name=Myurella
|author=Dale H. Vitt
|authority=Schimper
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Pterigynandraceae
|distribution=Nearly worldwide except Antarctica.
|reference=None
|publication title=in P. Bruch and W. P. Schimper, Bryol. Europ.
|publication year=1853
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V28/V28_582.xml
|genus=Myurella
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