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|accepted_name=Conostomum
|accepted_authority=Swartz ex F. Weber & D. Mohr in F. Weber
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in F. Weber, Naturh. Reise Schweden,
|place=121. 1804
|year=1804
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Bartramiaceae;Conostomum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Bartramiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Conostomum]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek konos, cone, and stoma, opening, alluding to operculum
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 661, 663
|treatment_page=page 98
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism pubescence;whole_organism coloration;whole_organism growth form;tuft density"><b>Plants </b>in dense tufts, glaucous or yellow-green.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>0.5–3 cm, erect, simple or 2-fid;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="stem some measurement;stem orientation;stem architecture;stem shape;stem shape;hyalodermi presence">pentagonal in cross-section, hyalodermis present, epidermis not prorulose;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="rhizoid architecture or pubescence or relief">radiculose proximally, rhizoids smooth.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="leaf arrangement;leaf fixation or orientation;leaf shape;leaf architecture;row quantity;row fusion"><b>Leaves </b>in 5 distinct rows, imbricate, appressed when dry or moist, narrowly lanceolate, 1-stratose;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="base architecture or shape">base not sheathing;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="margin shape or vernation;margin architecture or shape;tooth quantity">margins slightly revolute in distal 1/2, serrulate near apex, teeth single;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="apex shape;apex shape">apex acuminate or rarely blunt;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="costa architecture;costa position;abaxial surface shape">costa percurrent to excurrent, sometimes subpercurrent in proximal leaves, abaxial surface mammillose-toothed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="basal laminal cell architecture or arrangement">basal laminal cells more lax than distal cells;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="distal cell shape;distal cell relief;distal cell relief">distal cells rectangular to short-rhomboidal, smooth or mammillose at distal ends on both surfaces, walls thick.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties=""><b>Specialized </b>asexual reproduction unknown.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="wall width;wall development;wall reproduction;wall reproduction;wall reproduction"><b>Sexual </b>condition dioicous [or autoicous];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="perigonium shape;perigonium shape">perigonia cupulate or gemmiform;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="perichaetial leaf size">perichaetial leaves larger than stem-leaves.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="seta quantity;seta shape;seta course"><b>Seta </b>single, elongate, flexuose.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="capsule orientation;capsule shape;capsule relief;capsule architecture;mouth size;mouth orientation or shape"><b>Capsule </b>erect to inclined, ovoid, wrinkled and furrowed when dry, mouth not small, not oblique;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="annulus presence">annulus absent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="operculum shape;operculum shape">operculum conic, rostrate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s19" data-properties="peristome quantity;peristome presence">peristome single or rarely absent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s20" data-properties="exostome tooth coloration;exostome tooth shape;exostome tooth architecture or pubescence or relief;exostome tooth relief;exostome tooth fusion">exostome teeth reddish orange to dark-brown, linear-lanceolate, smooth throughout or finely papillose basally, apically connate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s21" data-properties="spore shape;spore relief"><b>Spores </b>spheric to reniform, coarsely papillose [to smooth].</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;South America;Europe;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands
|discussion=<p>Species 7–15 (1 in the flora).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Conostomum
|authority=Swartz ex F. Weber & D. Mohr in F. Weber
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Bartramiaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;South America;Europe;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands
|reference=None
|publication title=in F. Weber, Naturh. Reise Schweden,
|publication year=1804
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V28/V28_150.xml
|genus=Conostomum
|abaxial surface shape=mammillose-toothed
|annulus presence=absent
|apex shape=blunt;acuminate
|basal laminal cell architecture or arrangement=more lax
|base architecture or shape=not sheathing
|capsule architecture=furrowed
|capsule orientation=erect;inclined
|capsule relief=wrinkled
|capsule shape=ovoid
|costa architecture=percurrent;excurrent
|costa position=subpercurrent
|distal cell relief=mammillose;smooth
|distal cell shape=rectangular;short-rhomboidal
|exostome tooth architecture or pubescence or relief=smooth
|exostome tooth coloration=reddish orange;dark-brown
|exostome tooth fusion=connate
|exostome tooth relief=papillose
|exostome tooth shape=linear-lanceolate
|hyalodermi presence=absent
|leaf architecture=1-stratose
|leaf arrangement=imbricate
|leaf fixation or orientation=appressed
|leaf shape=lanceolate
|margin architecture or shape=serrulate
|margin shape or vernation=revolute
|mouth orientation or shape=not oblique
|mouth size=not small
|operculum shape=rostrate;conic
|perichaetial leaf size=larger
|perigonium shape=gemmiform;cupulate
|peristome presence=absent
|peristome quantity=single
|rhizoid architecture or pubescence or relief=smooth
|row fusion=distinct
|row quantity=5
|seta course=flexuose
|seta quantity=single
|seta shape=elongate
|spore relief=papillose
|spore shape=spheric;reniform
|stem architecture=simple
|stem orientation=erect
|stem shape=pentagonal;2-fid
|stem some measurement=0.5cm;3cm
|tooth quantity=single
|tuft density=dense
|wall development=specialized
|wall reproduction=dioicous;sexual;asexual
|wall width=thick
|whole_organism coloration=yellow-green
|whole_organism growth form=plant
|whole_organism pubescence=glaucous
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