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|accepted_name=Pyrrhobryum
|accepted_authority=Mitten
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Linn. Soc., Bot.
|place=10: 174. 1868
|year=1868
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rhizogoniaceae;Pyrrhobryum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rhizogoniaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pyrrhobryum]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek pyrrho, flame-colored, and bryon, moss, alluding to peristome
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 658
|treatment_page=page 245
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>with exterior cells in 2 or 3 rows, small, walls thick, interior cells larger, walls moderately thick. <b>Leaves</b> with base undifferentiated or occasionally indistinctly decurrent; margins double-serrate from near base; costa stereid cells well developed on both sides of guide cells; juxtacostal basal cells often weakly differentiated, short- to long-rectangular, enlarged, lax or not; medial and distal laminal cells uniform, isodiametric, rounded to 4–6-sided, smooth, walls thick; marginal cells 2-stratose. <b>Seta</b> wiry. <b>Capsule</b> striate and flared at mouth when deoperculate; exothecial cells hexagonal [quadrate- to rectangular-rounded], walls moderately thick, somewhat weakly collenchymatous at base; stomata few at base and in neck, superficial.</span><!--

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|distribution=se United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands;Australia;pantropical and southern temperate regions.
|discussion=<p>Species 10 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Pyrrhobryum</i> is characterized by elongate stems, distal and spirally arranged, broadly to narrowly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate leaves with double-toothed, 2-stratose margins, costae distally toothed abaxially, laminal cells mostly isodiametric and similar to near bases, and sporophytes positioned somewhat midway on stems or at bases.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=frahm2003a
|text=Frahm, J.-P. et al. 2003. Synopsis der Gattung Pyrrhobryum (Musci, Rhizogoniaceae). Trop. Bryol. 24: 115–127.
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|authority=Mitten
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|parent rank=family
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|family=Rhizogoniaceae
|distribution=se United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands;Australia;pantropical and southern temperate regions.
|reference=frahm2003a
|publication title=J. Linn. Soc., Bot.
|publication year=1868
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|genus=Pyrrhobryum
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