''Diphyscium'' is a

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of mosses in the family Diphysciaceae. Members of this genus are small, perennial plants. The capsule does not elongate much, and remains buried among surrounding leaves. There are fifteen species of ''Diphyscium''. However, two of these species formerly were placed in the

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n genus ''Theriotia'', and one species, from

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, formerly was segregated in the monotypic genus ''Muscoflorschuetzia''. In 2003, Magombo proposed reclassifying all fifteen species as belonging to the single genus ''Diphyscium''.

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Moss genera Bryopsida {{Bryophyte-stub