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|accepted_name=Brothera
|accepted_authority=Müller Hal.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Musc. Frond.,
|place=258. 1901 ,
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Dicranaceae;Brothera
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Dicranaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Brothera]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Viktor Ferdinand Brotherus, 1849–1929, Finnish bryologist
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 359, 427, 440
|treatment_page=page 365
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism size;whole_organism some measurement;whole_organism growth form;mat density;mat coloration"><b>Plants </b>small, 3–6 mm, in dense, yellowish to grayish green mats.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>radiculose at base.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf orientation;leaf shape;leaf condition or size;leaf height or length or size;apex shape"><b>Leaves </b>erect-patent when dry, lanceolate, gradually contracted to a short, canaliculate apex;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="costa quantity;costa prominence;costa architecture;abaxial and adaxial hyalocyst architecture or arrangement">costa filling 2/3 of the leaf base, not sharply delimited from the lamina, excurrent, in transverse-section with lax abaxial and adaxial hyalocysts and a median band of stereids;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="cell variability;cell coloration">alar cells weakly differentiated, hyaline;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="basal laminal cell coloration;basal laminal cell architecture;basal laminal cell shape;row quantity">basal laminal cells hyaline, of 8–10 rows, 2-stratose towards the costa, rectangular;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="">distal laminal cells rectangular.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="distal laminal cell shape;distal laminal cell reproduction;distal laminal cell reproduction"><b>Sexual </b>condition dioicous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="seta some measurement;seta coloration;seta architecture;seta architecture;seta orientation"><b>Seta </b>5–6 mm, yellowish, sinuose and twisted sinistrorse in the distal portion.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="capsule orientation;capsule coloration;capsule length;capsule width;capsule architecture or pubescence or relief;capsule condition or size"><b>Capsule </b>erect, yellowish green, 0.5 × 1.2 mm, smooth, contracted towards the peristome;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="annulus presence">annulus present;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="operculum shape">operculum rostrate, half the length of the urn;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="peristome tooth quantity;peristome tooth architecture;peristome tooth architecture;peristome tooth coloration;peristome tooth coloration or pubescence or relief;peristome tooth relief;peristome tooth some measurement;calyptra shape;calyptra shape">peristome teeth 16, entire or rarely perforated, yellowish, striate at base and papillose at tips, 210–240 µm. <b>Calyptra</b> cucullate, fringed at base.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="spore coloration;spore architecture or pubescence or relief;spore some measurement;exothecial wall size;exothecial wall variability"><b>Spores </b>yellowish green, smooth, 10–13 µm; exothecial walls incrassate, variable, without stomata.</span><!--

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|distribution=e North America;Mexico;Central America;Asia;Africa
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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name=Brothera
|author=Jan-Peter Frahm
|authority=Müller Hal.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Dicranaceae
|distribution=e North America;Mexico;Central America;Asia;Africa
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. Musc. Frond.,
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Brothera
|abaxial and adaxial hyalocyst architecture or arrangement=lax
|annulus presence=absent
|apex shape=canaliculate
|basal laminal cell architecture=2-stratose
|basal laminal cell coloration=hyaline
|basal laminal cell shape=rectangular
|calyptra shape=fringed;cucullate
|capsule architecture or pubescence or relief=smooth
|capsule coloration=yellowish green
|capsule condition or size=contracted
|capsule length=0.5
|capsule orientation=erect
|capsule width=1.2
|cell coloration=hyaline
|cell variability=differentiated
|costa architecture=excurrent
|costa prominence=delimited
|costa quantity=2/3
|distal laminal cell reproduction=dioicous;sexual
|distal laminal cell shape=rectangular
|exothecial wall size=incrassate
|exothecial wall variability=variable
|leaf condition or size=contracted
|leaf height or length or size=short
|leaf orientation=erect-patent
|leaf shape=lanceolate
|mat coloration=yellowish;grayish green
|mat density=dense
|operculum shape=rostrate
|peristome tooth architecture=perforated;entire
|peristome tooth coloration=yellowish
|peristome tooth coloration or pubescence or relief=striate
|peristome tooth quantity=16
|peristome tooth relief=papillose
|peristome tooth some measurement=210um;240um
|row quantity=8;10
|seta architecture=twisted;sinuose
|seta coloration=yellowish
|seta orientation=sinistrorse
|seta some measurement=5mm;6mm
|spore architecture or pubescence or relief=smooth
|spore coloration=yellowish green
|spore some measurement=10um;13um
|whole_organism growth form=plant
|whole_organism size=small
|whole_organism some measurement=3mm;6mm
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