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|accepted_name=Leskea gracilescens
|accepted_authority=Hedwig
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Musc. Frond.,
|place=222, plate 56, figs. 8 – 13. 1801
|year=1801
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Leskeaceae;Leskea;Leskea gracilescens
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Leskeaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Leskea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Leskea gracilescens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 351
|treatment_page=page 350
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>dark green or brownish. <b>Stems</b> with branches spreading, ± tightly foliate, not curved at apices. <b>Stem</b> and branch leaves similar. <b>Stem</b> leaves not much longer than broad, 0.6–0.8 mm; apex acute or sometimes narrowly blunt. <b>Branch</b> leaves somewhat crowded, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, ± 2-plicate basally, 0.4–0.5 mm; margins irregularly revolute proximally or beyond, especially when dry; apex acute or sometimes bluntly pointed; costa ending near apex; distal laminal cells 7–11 µm, obscurely bulging-papillose on both surfaces, more noticeably so abaxially. <b>Seta</b> yellow-brown, becoming orange-brown or reddish with age, 0.5–0.8 cm. <b>Capsule</b> reddish, oblong-cylindric, straight to sometimes curved before dehiscence, 1.5–2.2 mm; annulus 1- or 2-seriate; operculum rounded-conic, ± pointed; exostome teeth pale yellowish to brownish yellow; endostome segments as long as exostome teeth. <b>Spores</b> 12–14 µm, very finely papillose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature year-round.
|habitat=Base and trunks of hardwood trees, red cedar, soil around tree bases, logs, shingle roofs, rock
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (10-900 m)
|distribution=Man.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p><i>Leskea gracilescens</i> is the most common species of the genus in North America. While the species occurs throughout the United States and Canada from North Dakota to Ontario south to the coastal plain, it is most common in the Midwest where its colonies are often quite large and dense. In the western part of its range, plants with blunt leaves are difficult to distinguish from <i>L. obscura</i>. However, these blunt-leaved forms will have some leaves with plications and revolute margins. If mature capsules with intact peristomes are present, <i>L. gracilescens</i> is easily distinguished from <i>L. obscura</i> by an endostome and exostome nearly equal in length (0.2–0.4 mm) and an operculum that is more pointed than the operculum of <i>L. obscura</i>. The plants of <i>L. gracilescens</i> are rigid.</p>
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name=Leskea gracilescens
|authority=Hedwig
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Leskeaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature year-round.
|habitat=Base and trunks of hardwood trees, red cedar, soil around tree bases, logs, shingle roofs, rock
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (10-900 m)
|distribution=Man.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Musc. Frond.,
|publication year=1801
|special status=Endemic;Illustrated
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V28/V28_545.xml
|genus=Leskea
|species=Leskea gracilescens
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