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|accepted_name=Daltonia
|accepted_authority=Hooker & Taylor
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Muscol. Brit.,
|place=80, plates 3 [near upper left], 22 [lower center left & right]. 1818
|year=1818
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Daltoniaceae;Daltonia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Daltoniaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Daltonia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Rev. John Dalton, 1764 – 1843, British botanist and bryologist
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 251, 652
|treatment_page=page 252
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism reflectance;whole_organism growth form"><b>Plants </b>glossy.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem orientation;stem orientation;branch height or length or size;branch orientation"><b>Stems </b>prostrate or suberect, branches short, ascending.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf orientation;leaf architecture;leaf arrangement or shape;leaf course;leaf shape;leaf architecture;leaf shape;leaf architecture or shape;leaf course;leaf shape"><b>Leaves </b>erect, sometimes flexuose-twisted and contorted when dry, flexuose when moist, ovatelanceolate, ligulate to lance-acuminate, symmetric, straight, keeled;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="margin architecture or shape;margin architecture;cell arrangement or course or shape;cell size;row quantity">margins entire, strongly bordered, cells linear, incrassate, in several rows;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="">costa ending before apex in distal 1/4;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="laminal cell shape;wall size">laminal cells usually uniformly rhomboidal to elongate-hexagonal, walls usually incrassate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="">basal-cells sometimes rounded, longer, smooth.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="basal-cell shape;basal-cell length or size;basal-cell architecture or pubescence or relief;basal-cell reproduction;basal-cell reproduction;basal-cell reproduction"><b>Sexual </b>condition autoicous or synoicous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="seta relief or texture"><b>Seta </b>roughened distally [smooth].</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="capsule orientation"><b>Capsule </b>erect to subinclined;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="exothecial cell architecture">exothecial cells strongly collenchymatous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="exostome tooth dehiscence;exostome tooth relief;exostome tooth coloration or pubescence or relief;exostome tooth architecture;line dehiscence or orientation">exostome teeth hygrocastique (teeth incurved when dry and reflexed when moist), densely papillose, with zigzag longitudinal lines, not striate, not furrowed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="endostome segment arrangement or course or shape;endostome segment size or width;endostome segment length">endostome segments linear, narrow, same length as teeth, perforate along keel.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="calyptra relief;calyptra relief or texture;fringe hair density"><b>Calyptra </b>smooth to somewhat roughened distally, basal fringe hairs dense.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="spore relief"><b>Spores </b>papillose.</span><!--

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|distribution=nw North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Europe;Asia;Africa;Atlantic Islands;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 22 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Daltonia
|authority=Hooker & Taylor
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Daltoniaceae
|distribution=nw North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Europe;Asia;Africa;Atlantic Islands;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia
|reference=None
|publication title=Muscol. Brit.,
|publication year=1818
|special status=
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|genus=Daltonia
|basal-cell architecture or pubescence or relief=smooth
|basal-cell length or size=longer
|basal-cell reproduction=synoicous;autoicous;sexual
|basal-cell shape=rounded
|branch height or length or size=short
|branch orientation=ascending
|calyptra relief=smooth to somewhat
|calyptra relief or texture=roughened
|capsule orientation=erect
|cell arrangement or course or shape=linear
|cell size=incrassate
|endostome segment arrangement or course or shape=linear
|endostome segment length=perforate
|endostome segment size or width=narrow
|exostome tooth architecture=not furrowed
|exostome tooth coloration or pubescence or relief=not striate
|exostome tooth dehiscence=hygrocastique
|exostome tooth relief=papillose
|exothecial cell architecture=collenchymatous
|fringe hair density=dense
|laminal cell shape=usually uniformly rhomboidal;elongate-hexagonal
|leaf architecture=ligulate;flexuose-twisted
|leaf architecture or shape=symmetric
|leaf arrangement or shape=contorted
|leaf course=straight;flexuose
|leaf orientation=erect
|leaf shape=keeled;lance-acuminate;ovatelanceolate
|line dehiscence or orientation=longitudinal
|margin architecture=bordered
|margin architecture or shape=entire
|row quantity=several
|seta relief or texture=roughened
|spore relief=papillose
|stem orientation=suberect;prostrate
|wall size=incrassate
|whole_organism growth form=plant
|whole_organism reflectance=glossy
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