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Rhynchostegiopsis

Key to the Species
1. Plants 10-30(-40) mm long; leaves 1.0-2.5 mm long , 0.2-0.6 mm wide 1. Plants 35-100(-120) mm long; leaves 1.7-7.0 mm long, 0.7-2.1 mm wide	2 4
2. Leaf apices short acuminate 2. Leaf apices long acuminate	R. brasiliensis 3
3. Leaf apices flexuose, margins sharply serrate, serrate or serrulate, cells of margin forming distinct border, propagulae on leaf absent 3. Leaf apices straight, serrate to subentire, cells of margin not distinct, propagulae often on dorsal leaf surface	R. flexuosa R. costaricensis
4. Leaves 1.7-4.6 mm long, 0.7-1.6 mm wide, margins serrate to serrulate. 4. Leaves 4.5-7.0 mm long, 1.5-2.1 mm wide, margins serrulate to almost entire.	R. tunguraguana R. carolae
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Rhynchostegiopsis brasiliensis

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Rhynchostegiopsis flexuosa

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Rhynchostegiopsis costaricensis

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Rhynchostegiopsis tunguraguana

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Rhynchostegiopsis carolae

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