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|accepted_name=Rhabdoweisia
|accepted_authority=Bruch & Schimper
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bryol. Europ.
|place=1: 97. 1846 ,
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Dicranaceae;Rhabdoweisia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Dicranaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Rhabdoweisia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek rhabdos, rod, presumably alluding to ribbed capsule, and genus Weissia, alluding to resemblance
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 359, 383
|treatment_page=page 428
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>in short loose tufts, perennial, dull green to brownish. <b>Stems</b> 0.2–3 cm, erect, forked by innovations, red-brown, without central strand, rhizoids smooth, at base of stem. <b>Leaves</b> oblong-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, obtuse to acute, keeled, strongly divergent when moist, crisped to sinuose when dry, 2–4 mm; costa subpercurrent, formed of rectangular cells; margins usually recurved, mainly serrate to serrulate along distal margins, with 1-celled irregular teeth; laminal cells smooth, proximal cells hyaline to brownish, rectangular, thin-walled, absent chlorophyll; distal cells, quadrate to irregular, usually broader than long, chlorophyllose except for the marginal teeth. <b>Specialized</b> asexual reproduction absent. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous; perigonial leaves short-elliptic; perichaetial leaves not differing from the vegetative. <b>Seta</b> solitary, erect, yellow, 2–6 mm, smooth. <b>Capsule</b> exserted, erect, brown to yellow-brown, 0.5–1 mm, symmetric, ovoid to oblong-cylindric, when dry and empty contracted below mouth and deeply 8-furrowed,; annulus absent; stomata at base of urn, phaneropore; operculum obliquely subulate, 0.5–1 mm; peristome single, 16 teeth joined by a low basal membrane, inserted slightly below mouth, irregular and not forked, early deciduous. <b>Calyptra</b> cucullate, smooth, covering 1/2 of capsule. <b>Spores</b> nearly spherical to slightly angled, smooth, 16–20 µm, papillose.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;South America;Europe;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands.
|discussion=<p>Species 6 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Rhabdoweisia</i> is known predominately from the Northern Hemisphere. A strong case has been made to include this, as well as other genera, in the family Rhabdoweisiaceae Limpricht.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=lawton1961a
|text=Lawton, E. 1961. A revision of the genus Rhabdoweisia. Bryologist 64: 140–156.
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves long-ligulate, 2-4 mm, broadly acute to obtuse, irregularly dentate in distal part, distal cells hexagonal, 14-20 µm wide, thin-walled relative to the lumina.
|[[Rhabdoweisia crenulata|Rhabdoweisia crenulata]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves linear-lanceolate, 2-3.5 mm, gradually and narrowly acute, serrulate in distal part, distal cells mainly quadrate, often wider than long, 10-14 µm wide, somewhat incrassate.
|[[Rhabdoweisia crispata|Rhabdoweisia crispata]]
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name=Rhabdoweisia
|author=Wilfred B. Schofield
|authority=Bruch & Schimper
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Dicranaceae
|distribution=North America;South America;Europe;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands.
|reference=lawton1961a
|publication title=Bryol. Europ.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Rhabdoweisia
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