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|accepted_name=Pilosium
|accepted_authority=(Brotherus) M. Fleischer
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Musc. Buitenzorg
|place=4: 1158. 1923
|year=1923
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Stereophyllum sect. Pilosium
|authority=Brotherus
|rank=section
|publication_title=in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam.
|publication_place=227/228[I,3]: 899. 1907
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Stereophyllaceae;Pilosium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Stereophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pilosium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek pilos, felted hairs, and -ion, diminutive, alluding to rhizoids
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 470, 644
|treatment_page=page 472
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>in dense mats, yellowish green, glossy. <b>Stems</b> with central strand absent; axillary hair apical cells 3. <b>Stem</b> and branch leaves differentiated, somewhat stiff, close, wide-spreading, somewhat curled when dry, curled downward when moist, dorsal leaves oblong-ovate, symmetric, not plicate; margins plane, entire to serrulate, especially distally; apex obtuse to short-acute; ecostate; laminal cell walls thin; medial and distal cells linear, smooth; lateral leaves oblong-lanceolate, cultriform, costa present, rarely to 1/3 leaf length. <b>Perigonia</b> with leaves ecostate. <b>Perichaetia</b> scattered along stems, often in pairs, leaves ovate to lanceolate, ecostate, laminal cells linear. <b>Seta</b> orange-red, straight. <b>Capsule</b> cernuous, orange-red, short-cylindric; exothecial cell walls collenchymatous; annulus undifferentiated; operculum short-rostrate; exostome teeth not shouldered, internal surface projecting; endostome papillose, basal membrane high, segments shorter than exostome teeth, cilia single, shorter than segments. <b>Spores</b> spheric, 7–9 µm.</span><!--

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|distribution=N.C.;se Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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name=Pilosium
|authority=(Brotherus) M. Fleischer
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Stereophyllum sect. Pilosium
|family=Stereophyllaceae
|distribution=N.C.;se Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Musc. Buitenzorg
|publication year=1923
|special status=
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|genus=Pilosium
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