View source for Tortula nevadensis

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|accepted_name=Tortula nevadensis
|accepted_authority=(Cardot & Thériot) R. H. Zander
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci.
|place=32: 226. 1993,
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Pottia nevadensis
|authority=Cardot & Thériot
|publication_title=Bot. Gaz.
|publication_place=37: 365, plate 18, fig. 1. 1904
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Pottiaceae;Pottiaceae subfam. Pottioideae;Tortula;Tortula nevadensis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pottiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Pottiaceae subfam. Pottioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tortula]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Tortula nevadensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 588, 589
|treatment_page=page 594
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Leaves </b>ovate to obovate or elliptical, apex acute, short-awned, sometimes long, margins plane or rarely weakly recurved medially, not bordered; costa long-excurrent, lacking an adaxial pad of cells, distally narrow, 2–3 cells across adaxial surface; distal laminal cells subquadrate or occasionally hexagonal, 16–22 µm wide, 1(–2):1, smooth. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous. <b>Sporophytes</b> exerted. <b>Seta</b> 1–1.4 cm. <b>Capsule</b> stegocarpic, not systylius (but columella falls with operculum), obovate to cylindric, erect and nearly straight, urn 0.8–1.6 mm; peristome absent; operculum 0.6–1 mm. <b>Spores</b> 23–30 µm, spheric, granulose-papillose papillose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature spring–summer.
|habitat=Soil, occasional saline soil, clay
|elevation=moderate to high elevations (500-3900 m)
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Colo.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.
|discussion=<p>In <i>Tortula nevadensis</i>, the often long-cylindric capsule with operculum rostrate from a flattened base is much like that of <i>Hennediella heimii</i> but is not technically systylius because the operculum usually falls without being lifted by the columella; the columella is cut near the base and remains attached to the operculum. The leaves are reddish only in the extreme basal portion in 2 percent KOH solution. The costa seen in section has two (sub)stereid bands in the more robust leaves, but the large, smooth laminal cells and broad leaf shape preclude confusion with taxa in genera characteristically having two stereid bands (but only one band if plant environmentally depauperate). What appears to be a ventral stereid band may be secondary thickening of an internal epidermal layer. The distal leaves may be weakly denticulate near the apex by projecting cell ends. This uncommon species is a western North American one that is disjunctive to Ontario and Quebec.</p>
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name=Tortula nevadensis
|author=
|authority=(Cardot & Thériot) R. H. Zander
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Pottia nevadensis
|family=Pottiaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature spring–summer.
|habitat=Soil, occasional saline soil, clay
|elevation=moderate to high elevations (500-3900 m)
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Colo.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Pottiaceae subfam. Pottioideae
|genus=Tortula
|species=Tortula nevadensis
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