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|hierarchy=Oedipodiaceae
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Oedipodiaceae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism growth form;whole_organism arrangement or pubescence;whole_organism atypical some measurement;whole_organism some measurement;whole_organism coloration;whole_organism coloration;whole_organism growth form"><b>Plants </b>gregarious to loosely tufted, 5–10 (–20) mm, light-green when moist, dark green when dry;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="protonemum shape;protonemum architecture">protonema thallose, branched.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="stem orientation;stem architecture;stem shape"><b>Stems </b>erect, simple or forked by innovation.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="stem base size;rosette architecture"><b>Leaves </b>small and remote toward stem base, larger and crowded in open rosettes distally;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="leaf size;leaf arrangement or density;leaf arrangement;leaf shape">rounded-obtuse at the apex;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="margin shape;margin shape;margin architecture or shape;margin length or size;cilium course">margins plane or somewhat undulate, entire except for long, flexuose cilia at basal margins of distal leaves;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="bud quantity">costa single, broad at leaf base, ending 6–10 cells before the apex;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="costa quantity;costa width">alar cells absent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="brood reproduction;brood architecture or shape;body architecture or shape"><b>Specialized </b>asexual reproduction by discoid brood bodies produced among rosettes of leaves, mingled with sex organs, particularly antheridia, and on protonema.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="bud presence;bud development;bud reproduction;bud reproduction;bud reproduction"><b>Sexual </b>condition variably synoicous and autoicous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="perigonial leaf variability">perigonial and perichetial leaves scarcely differentiated.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="seta presence;seta quantity;seta length or size"><b>Seta </b>present, single, long.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="capsule orientation;capsule shape;capsule shape;capsule architecture;neck length or size;neck texture;neck some measurement;neck shape;neck architecture"><b>Capsule </b>erect, subglobose or hemispheric, wide-mouthed, neck long, fleshy, 2–4 mm, tapered toward seta, hollow for the greater part of its length;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="stoma quantity;stomate presence;guard bud quantity">stomata numerous, stomates present in distal part of capsule, with 2 guard cells;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="peristome presence;annulus presence">peristome and annulus absent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="operculum shape;operculum shape;operculum shape;operculum architecture or shape">operculum strongly convex and bluntly umbonate or weakly convex and more or less apiculate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="columella position">columella included.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="calyptra size;calyptra shape;calyptra architecture or pubescence or relief;calyptra architecture;calyptra duration"><b>Calyptra </b>small, cucullate, smooth and naked, readily deciduous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="spore shape;papilla arrangement"><b>Spores </b>tetrahedral, with densely crowded papillae.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;s South America;Europe;Asia;s Africa
|discussion=<p>Genus 1, species 1.</p><!--
--><p>The Oedipodiaceae has been placed in the Funariales and, more commonly, in the Splachnales. Sometimes Oedipodium has been placed in the Splachnaceae because of the remarkably differentiated neck of the capsule that is somewhat similar to the expanded hypophysis of that family. In addition to the distinctive capsule neck, Oedipodiaceae is further characterized by the branched-thallose protonema bearing discoid brood bodies, and also by rosettes of erect-spreading leaves with stalked, discoid brood bodies often mingled with sex organs; leaves broadly rounded above a very narrow base, and leaf cells with tiny corner thickenings. The brood bodies of Oedipodium are somewhat like those of Alophosia, of the Polytrichaceae. However, the nature of the protonema in Oedipodium, and the production of brood bodies on the protonema and also in rosettes that are somewhat like the gemma cups of Tetraphis, suggest a closer relationship of Oedipodiaceae to the Tetraphidaceae.</p>
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name=Oedipodiaceae
|author=Howard A. Crum†
|authority=Schimper
|rank=family
|parent rank=
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Oedipodiaceae
|illustrator=Patricia M. Eckel
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=North America;s South America;Europe;Asia;s Africa
|reference=None
|publication title=
|publication year=
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|annulus presence=absent
|body architecture or shape=discoid
|brood architecture or shape=discoid
|brood reproduction=asexual
|bud development=specialized
|bud presence=absent
|bud quantity=6;10
|bud reproduction=autoicous;synoicous;sexual
|calyptra architecture=naked
|calyptra architecture or pubescence or relief=smooth
|calyptra duration=deciduous
|calyptra shape=cucullate
|calyptra size=small
|capsule architecture=wide-mouthed
|capsule orientation=erect
|capsule shape=hemispheric;subglobose
|cilium course=flexuose
|columella position=included
|costa quantity=single
|costa width=broad
|guard bud quantity=2
|leaf arrangement=crowded
|leaf arrangement or density=remote
|leaf shape=rounded-obtuse
|leaf size=small
|margin architecture or shape=entire
|margin length or size=long
|margin shape=undulate;plane
|neck architecture=hollow
|neck length or size=long
|neck shape=tapered
|neck some measurement=2mm;4mm
|neck texture=fleshy
|operculum architecture or shape=apiculate
|operculum shape=convex;umbonate;convex
|papilla arrangement=crowded
|perigonial leaf variability=differentiated
|peristome presence=absent
|protonemum architecture=branched
|protonemum shape=thallose
|rosette architecture=open
|seta length or size=long
|seta presence=absent
|seta quantity=single
|spore shape=tetrahedral
|stem architecture=simple
|stem base size=larger
|stem orientation=erect
|stem shape=forked
|stoma quantity=numerous
|stomate presence=absent
|whole_organism arrangement or pubescence=tufted
|whole_organism atypical some measurement=10mm;20mm
|whole_organism coloration=dark green;light-green
|whole_organism growth form=plant;gregarious
|whole_organism some measurement=5mm;10mm
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