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|accepted_name=Rhytidiopsis
|accepted_authority=Brotherus in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam.
|place=232/233[I,3]: 1057, fig. 858A – D. 1908
|year=1908
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Hylocomiaceae;Rhytidiopsis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Hylocomiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Rhytidiopsis]]</div></div>
|etymology=Genus Rhytidium and Greek - opsis, appearance, alluding to similar leaves
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 326, 338, 644
|treatment_page=page 335
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="stem orientation;stem width;stem width;stem architecture;stem architecture;stem architecture"><b>Stems </b>creeping to ascending, (3–) 5–8 mm wide across leafy stem, monopodial, irregularly and remotely branched;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="paraphyllium density;base architecture or arrangement;base architecture or arrangement;branch architecture or arrangement">paraphyllia dense, base 1-seriate or 2-seriate, branches 1-seriate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf-stem orientation;leaf-stem arrangement;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"><b>Stem-</b>leaves erect to spreading, falcate-secund, crowded, ovate to lanceolate, strongly plicate, rugose in lower acumen, (2.5–) 3.6–5.3 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 shape">margins serrulate at apex, otherwise minutely toothed to entire;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="apex shape">apex gradually acuminate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="costa quantity">costa double, 1/4–1/2 leaf length;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="cell variability">alar cells ± differentiated;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="laminal cell architecture or pubescence or relief">laminal cells smooth.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties=""><b>Branch </b>leaves similar.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="capsule orientation"><b>Capsule </b>horizontal;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="operculum shape">operculum conic;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="exostome tooth pubescence;exostome tooth architecture or coloration or relief">exostome teeth irregularly cross-striolate to somewhat reticulate proximally;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="endostome segment architecture">endostome segments narrowly perforate.</span><!--

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|distribution=w North America
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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name=Rhytidiopsis
|authority=Brotherus in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Hylocomiaceae
|distribution=w North America
|reference=None
|publication title=in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam.
|publication year=1908
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Rhytidiopsis
|apex shape=acuminate
|base architecture or arrangement=2-seriate;1-seriate
|base shape=not decurrent
|branch architecture or arrangement=1-seriate
|capsule orientation=horizontal
|cell variability=differentiated
|costa quantity=1/4;1/2
|endostome segment architecture=perforate
|exostome tooth architecture or coloration or relief=reticulate
|exostome tooth pubescence=cross-striolate
|laminal cell architecture or pubescence or relief=smooth
|leaf-stem architecture or arrangement or shape or vernation=plicate
|leaf-stem arrangement=crowded;falcate-secund
|leaf-stem atypical distance=2.5mm;3.6mm
|leaf-stem distance=3.6mm;5.3mm
|leaf-stem orientation=erect;spreading
|leaf-stem relief=rugose
|leaf-stem shape=ovate;lanceolate
|margin architecture or shape=serrulate
|margin shape=otherwise minutely toothed;entire
|operculum shape=conic
|paraphyllium density=dense
|stem architecture=leafy;branched;monopodial
|stem orientation=creeping;ascending
|stem width=5mm;8mm
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