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|accepted_name=Hylocomium
|accepted_authority=Schimper in P. Bruch and W. P. Schimper
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in P. Bruch and W. P. Schimper, Bryol. Europ.
|place=5: 169, plates 487 – 493. 1852
|year=1852
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Hylocomiaceae;Hylocomium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Hylocomiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Hylocomium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek hylokomos, forest inhabitant, alluding to habitat
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 326, 330, 338, 642
|treatment_page=page 327
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="stem growth form or orientation;stem orientation;stem width;stem architecture;stem architecture;stem architecture or shape;stem architecture or shape;stem architecture;form size;form habitat"><b>Stems </b>creeping to more often arching-ascending, 1–3 mm wide across leafy stem, sympodial, rarely appearing monopodial in reduced arctic-alpine forms, regularly 2-pinnate or 3-pinnate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="paraphyllium quantity;base architecture or arrangement;branch architecture or arrangement;branch architecture or arrangement">paraphyllia many, base multiseriate, branches 1-seriate or 2-seriate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf-stem fixation or orientation;leaf-stem arrangement;leaf-stem shape;leaf-stem architecture or arrangement or shape or vernation;leaf-stem relief;leaf-stem atypical distance;leaf-stem distance;stipe orientation"><b>Stem-</b>leaves tightly appressed on stipe to erect among branches, heteromallous, not crowded, oblong-ovate to ovate, lightly plicate, sometimes rugose in acumen, 1.6–3.2 (–4) mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="base shape">base not decurrent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="margin architecture or shape;margin architecture or shape">margins serrulate to nearly entire proximally, serrate to serrulate distally;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="apex shape;apex shape;apex shape;apex shape;apex shape;apex shape;apex shape;apex shape;apex shape;apex shape;apex shape;apex shape;apex shape;apex shape;apex shape;apex shape">apex abruptly acuminate, or occasionally rounded, obtuse, or abruptly acute;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="costa quantity">costa double, 1/4–1/2 leaf length, sometimes nearly ecostate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="cell variability">alar cells not differentiated;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="">laminal cells occasionally minutely prorate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="branch leaf shape"><b>Branch </b>leaves ovate to elliptic-lanceolate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="capsule orientation"><b>Capsule </b>inclined to pendent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="operculum shape;operculum shape">operculum conic, obliquely long-rostrate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="exostome tooth architecture or coloration or relief">exostome teeth reticulate proximally;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="endostome segment architecture;perforation size;perforation architecture">endostome segments broadly perforate, usually split into one large gaping perforation.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Eurasia;n Africa;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia;cool temperate;boreal;and arctic regions
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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name=Hylocomium
|authority=Schimper in P. Bruch and W. P. Schimper
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Hylocomiaceae
|distribution=North America;Eurasia;n Africa;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia;cool temperate;boreal;and arctic regions
|reference=None
|publication title=in P. Bruch and W. P. Schimper, Bryol. Europ.
|publication year=1852
|special status=
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|genus=Hylocomium
|apex shape=acute;obtuse;rounded;acuminate;acute;obtuse;rounded;acuminate;acute;obtuse;rounded;acuminate;acute;obtuse;rounded;acuminate
|base architecture or arrangement=multiseriate
|base shape=not decurrent
|branch architecture or arrangement=2-seriate;1-seriate
|branch leaf shape=ovate;elliptic-lanceolate
|capsule orientation=inclined;pendent
|cell variability=not differentiated
|costa quantity=1/4;1/2
|endostome segment architecture=perforate
|exostome tooth architecture or coloration or relief=reticulate
|form habitat=arctic-alpine
|form size=reduced
|leaf-stem architecture or arrangement or shape or vernation=plicate
|leaf-stem arrangement=not crowded
|leaf-stem atypical distance=3.2mm;4mm
|leaf-stem distance=1.6mm;3.2mm
|leaf-stem fixation or orientation=appressed
|leaf-stem relief=rugose
|leaf-stem shape=oblong-ovate;ovate
|margin architecture or shape=serrate;serrulate
|operculum shape=long-rostrate;conic
|paraphyllium quantity=many
|perforation architecture=gaping
|perforation size=large
|stem architecture=leafy;monopodial;sympodial
|stem architecture or shape=3-pinnate;2-pinnate
|stem growth form or orientation=creeping
|stem orientation=arching-ascending
|stem width=1mm;3mm
|stipe orientation=erect
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