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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Seligeria
|accepted_authority=Bruch & Schimper
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bryol. Europ.
|place=2: 7. 1856 ,
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Seligeriaceae;Seligeria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Seligeriaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Seligeria]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Ignaz Seliger, 1752–1812, Silesian pastor
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 327, 381
|treatment_page=page 320
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="rock habitat"><b>Plants </b>of calcareous rocks, light green to black.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="whole_organism coloration;whole_organism growth form"><b>Alar </b>cells not differentiated to colored and enlarged.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="cell variability;cell reproduction;cell reproduction"><b>Sexual </b>condition autoicous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="capsule architecture or pubescence or relief"><b>Capsule </b>smooth;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="annulus prominence">annulus ill-formed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="peristome tooth architecture or pubescence or relief">peristome teeth smooth.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="calyptra shape"><b>Calyptra </b>cucullate.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Europe;Asia;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 20 (13 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Seligeria is characterized as tiny acrocarpous plants, with more or less ovate, smooth capsules and linear-lanceolate leaves, and a calcareous substrate as habitat. Seligeria trifaria (Bridel) Lindberg is excluded.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=vitt1976a
|text=Vitt, D. H. 1976. The genus Seligeria in North America. Lindbergia 3: 241–275.
}}
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Capsule without a peristome, margins of leaf in proximal 1/3 denticulate.
|[[Seligeria donniana|Seligeria donniana]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Capsule with a peristome, margins subentire to entire
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Spores 17-30 µm
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Spores 10-16 µm
|[[#key-0-5| > 5]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Spores (20-)23-30 µm; peristome of 16 reduced teeth, each of 5-8 cells.
|[[Seligeria oelandica|Seligeria oelandica]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Spores 17-25(-27) µm; peristome of 16 fully developed teeth
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Capsule ovate, sometimes with flaring mouth when old and dry; seta 2-3 mm; columella short, not persistent, not attached to opercula; leaves spreading- recurved, evenly spaced around stem, not trifarious
|[[Seligeria polaris|Seligeria polaris]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Capsule turbinate when old and dry; seta 1-1.5 mm; columella elongate with opercula tending to remain attached; leaves often trifarious.
|[[Seligeria tristichoides|Seligeria tristichoides]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Costa excurrent, filling subulate apex
|[[#key-0-6| > 6]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Costa (except in perichaetial leaves) ending just before apex, lamina present into apex
|[[#key-0-9| > 9]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Seta curved 30-90° when wet.
|[[Seligeria recurvata|Seligeria recurvata]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Seta straight when wet
|[[#key-0-7| > 7]]
|-id=key-0-7
|7
|Leaves wiry, stiffly flexuose, long-subulate, light green to dull-green; cells of leaf lamina longer than broad, pellucid; seta less than 1 mm; capsule turbinate when old, emergent.
|[[Seligeria careyana|Seligeria careyana]]
|-id=key-0-7
|7
|Leaves recurved-twisted to stiffly erect, stoutly subulate from a wide base, dark-green to black; cells of distal leaf lamina usually as wide as long, opaque; seta greater than 1 mm; capsule ± ovate to oblong when old, emergent to exserted
|[[#key-0-8| > 8]]
|-id=key-0-8
|8
|Leaves stiffly-erect when dry; plants dark-green, gregarious; spores 14-16 µm; capsule contracted to seta through a wrinkled neck when old; eastern North America.
|[[Seligeria calcarea|Seligeria calcarea]]
|-id=key-0-8
|8
|Leaves twisted when dry; plants blackish, forming turfs; spores 10-14 µm; capsule ± sharply contracted to seta when old; western North America.
|[[Seligeria subimmersa|Seligeria subimmersa]]
|-id=key-0-9
|9
|Plants olive green to dark green; cells of distal leaf lamina ± opaque, usually as broad as long; leaves oblong to lanceolate; capsule ovate to oblong, not clearly widest at mouth
|[[#key-0-10| > 10]]
|-id=key-0-9
|9
|Plants light green; cells of leaf lamina pellucid, tending to be longer than broad; vegetative leaves linear, sometimes ± subulate; capsule turbinate to obovate, widest at mouth
|[[#key-0-11| > 11]]
|-id=key-0-10
|10
|Leaves curved and loosely arranged when dry, narrowed to obtuse, plane, erect acumen; perichaetial leaves usually not clasping, similar to vegetative leaves; capsule wider at middle than at mouth; seta thin, curved 30-90° when wet.
|[[Seligeria campylopoda|Seligeria campylopoda]]
|-id=key-0-10
|10
|Leaves stiffly erect when dry, narrowed to an obtuse, incurved, channeled acumen; perichaetial leaves clasping and rapidly narrowed to stout subula; capsule ± as wide at middle as at mouth; seta ± thick, straight to slightly curved when wet.
|[[Seligeria diversifolia|Seligeria diversifolia]]
|-id=key-0-11
|11
|Perichaetial leaves subulate from an ovate, sheathing base, abruptly differentiated from vegetative leaves.
|[[Seligeria acutifolia|Seligeria acutifolia]]
|-id=key-0-11
|11
|Perichaetial and vegetative leaves similar, sometimes distal leaves larger, but always similar to proximal leaves in shape
|[[#key-0-12| > 12]]
|-id=key-0-12
|12
|Leaves short, ligulate; apex broadly acute to obtuse; capsule ± pyriform when old; peristome large.
|[[Seligeria brevifolia|Seligeria brevifolia]]
|-id=key-0-12
|12
|Leaves long, subulate; apex narrowly acute; capsule obovate to pyriform when old; peristome small.
|[[Seligeria pusilla|Seligeria pusilla]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Seligeria
|author=Dale H. Vitt
|authority=Bruch & Schimper
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Seligeriaceae
|distribution=North America;Europe;Asia;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia
|reference=vitt1976a
|publication title=Bryol. Europ.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V27/V27_438.xml
|genus=Seligeria
|annulus prominence=ill-formed
|calyptra shape=cucullate
|capsule architecture or pubescence or relief=smooth
|cell reproduction=autoicous;sexual
|cell variability=not differentiated
|peristome tooth architecture or pubescence or relief=smooth
|rock habitat=calcareous
|whole_organism coloration=light green;black
|whole_organism growth form=plant
}}<!--

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