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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Voitia
|accepted_authority=Hornschuch
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Voitia Systylio,
|place=5, plate 1. 1818
|year=1818
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Splachnaceae;Voitia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Splachnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Voitia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Voit, 1787 – 1813, German bryologist
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 650
|treatment_page=page 15
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>in tufts, light green to yellow-green. <b>Stems</b> 1–6 cm; densely radiculose proximally. <b>Stem</b> leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate; margins entire; apex long-acuminate; costa excurrent; proximal laminal cells rectangular; distal cells rectangular. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous. <b>Seta</b> 1–3 cm, straight or slightly twisted basally, usually strongly twisted immediately below capsule. <b>Capsule</b> cleistocarpous, dark red, oblong-ovate or ovate-globose; hypophysis absent; annulus absent; operculum not differentiated; peristome absent. <b>Calyptra</b> cucullate, enlarged, completely covering capsule, sometimes split at base. <b>Spores</b> 7–18 µm, smooth.</span><!--

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|distribution=w North America;n Eurasia;circumboreal and in mountainous regions.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Plants of <i>Voitia</i> are coprophilic, but as they are cleistocarpous, they do not have spores dispersed by flies (order Diptera). Spores are released by the disintegration of the sporangial wall. The dark red capsule is quite distinct, and the two species are easily distinguished by capsule shape. The stems of this genus are often branched; the leaf margins are more or less incurved; the basal laminal cells are 55–95 µm. The perigonia and perichaetia are terminal on separate branches; the setae are yellowish to dark red, darkest distally. The stem leaves are slightly contorted when dry, erect-spreading when moist.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=goffinet2002a
|text=Goffinet, B. and A. J. Shaw. 2002. Independent origins of cleistocarpy in the Splachnaceae: Analyses of cpDNA sequences reveals polyphyly of the Voitioideae. Syst. Bot. 27: 203–208.
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Capsules oblong-ovate, gradually narrowed to seta, basal ridge absent; setae strongly twisted immediately below capsule.
|[[Voitia nivalis|Voitia nivalis]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Capsules ovate-globose, abruptly narrowed to seta, basal ridge present; setae not twisted near capsule.
|[[Voitia hyperborea|Voitia hyperborea]]
|}
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name=Voitia
|authority=Hornschuch
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Splachnaceae
|distribution=w North America;n Eurasia;circumboreal and in mountainous regions.
|reference=goffinet2002a
|publication title=Voitia Systylio,
|publication year=1818
|special status=
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|genus=Voitia
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