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|accepted_name=Myuroclada
|accepted_authority=Bescherelle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér.
|place=7, 17: 379. 1893
|year=1893
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brachytheciaceae;Myuroclada
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brachytheciaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Myuroclada]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek mys, mouse, oura, tail, and clados, branch, alluding to resemblance
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 405, 408, 431, 653, 655
|treatment_page=page 448
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism size;whole_organism coloration;whole_organism coloration;whole_organism growth form;mat architecture or fragility"><b>Plants </b>medium-sized, in loose mats, pale silvery green.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem growth form or orientation;stem course or shape;stem shape;stem architecture;stem architecture;branch architecture"><b>Stems </b>creeping to erect-arcuate, often attenuate, strongly julaceous, unbranched to weakly irregularly branched, branches terete-foliate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="central strand presence">central strand present;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="pseudoparaphyllium shape">pseudoparaphyllia orbicular-triangular;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="cell quantity">axillary hairs of 2–4 cells.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="stem-leaf fixation or orientation;stem-leaf arrangement;stem-leaf arrangement;stem-leaf shape;stem-leaf shape;stem-leaf architecture or arrangement or shape or vernation"><b>Stem-</b>leaves erect-appressed, crowded, imbricate, orbicular to broadly ovate, concave, not or indistinctly plicate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="base shape">base moderately decurrent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="margin architecture or shape">margins nearly entire to serrulate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="apex shape;apex architecture or shape;apex shape">apex very broadly acute to rounded, short-apiculate when young, blunt when mature;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="terminal spine fragility or size;terminal spine fragility or size;terminal spine presence">costa to mid leaf or slightly beyond, moderately stout, terminal spine absent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="cell size">alar cells smaller than basal juxtacostal cells;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="laminal cell shape">laminal cells short-rhombic to rhombic.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties=""><b>Branch </b>leaves similar.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties=""><b>Sexual </b>condition dioicous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="branch leaf reproduction;branch leaf reproduction">[Seta redbrown, smooth. <b>Capsule</b> inclined to horizontal, nearly black when old, oblong, weakly curved; annulus separating in fragments; operculum long-conic, obliquely rostrate; peristome xerocastique, perfect. <b>Calyptra</b> naked. <b>Spores</b> 12–16 µm].</span><!--

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|distribution=Alaska;e Asia (Japan);e Asia (Korea);e Asia (Russia);in Europe. The above description of the sporophyte is from Asian material
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!--
--><p>The above description of the sporophyte is from Asian material.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Myuroclada
|author=Wilfred B. Schofield†
|authority=Bescherelle
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brachytheciaceae
|distribution=Alaska;e Asia (Japan);e Asia (Korea);e Asia (Russia);in Europe. The above description of the sporophyte is from Asian material
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér.
|publication year=1893
|special status=
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|genus=Myuroclada
|apex architecture or shape=short-apiculate
|apex shape=blunt;very broadly acute;rounded
|base shape=decurrent
|branch architecture=terete-foliate
|branch leaf reproduction=dioicous;sexual
|cell quantity=2;4
|cell size=smaller
|central strand presence=absent
|laminal cell shape=short-rhombic;rhombic
|margin architecture or shape=nearly entire;serrulate
|mat architecture or fragility=loose
|pseudoparaphyllium shape=orbicular-triangular
|stem architecture=unbranched;weakly irregularly branched
|stem course or shape=erect-arcuate
|stem growth form or orientation=creeping
|stem shape=attenuate
|stem-leaf architecture or arrangement or shape or vernation=plicate
|stem-leaf arrangement=imbricate;crowded
|stem-leaf fixation or orientation=erect-appressed
|stem-leaf shape=concave;orbicular;broadly ovate
|terminal spine fragility or size=stout;stout
|terminal spine presence=absent
|whole_organism coloration=green;pale silvery
|whole_organism growth form=plant
|whole_organism size=medium-sized
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