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|accepted_name=Brachytheciastrum fendleri
|accepted_authority=(Sullivant) Ochyra & Zarnowiec
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Biodivers. Poland
|place=3: 172. 2003
|year=2003
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Leskea fendleri
|authority=Sullivant
|rank=species
|publication_title=Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s.
|publication_place=4: 169, plate 1. 1849
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Brachythecium fendleri
|authority=(Sullivant) A. Jaeger
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Brachytheciaceae;Brachytheciastrum;Brachytheciastrum fendleri
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brachytheciaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Brachytheciastrum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Brachytheciastrum fendleri]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 409, 416
|treatment_page=page 410
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small, in loose to dense tufts, light green to yellowish or brownish. <b>Stems</b> 3–5 cm, creeping, terete-foliate, julaceous, irregularly pinnate, branches to 5 mm, terete-foliate. <b>Stem</b> leaves erect-appressed when dry, erect-spreading when moist, loosely imbricate, straight, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, not or sometimes slightly plicate, 0.9–1.3 × 0.2–0.5 mm; margins recurved basally, serrulate almost throughout; apex gradually tapered to sometimes acuminate, acumen spreading; costa to 60–70% leaf length, terminal spine present; alar cells subquadrate, 9–15 × 9–12 µm, region small, of 6–8 × 4 or 5 cells, distinctly to moderately delimited; laminal cells linear, 40–60 × 4–6 µm; basal cells to 8–10 µm wide, indistinctly delimited from more distal cells. <b>Sexual</b> condition synoicous. <b>Seta</b> reddish, 1–1.5 cm, smooth or slightly rough. <b>Capsule</b> erect to inclined, reddish, ovate-elongate to cylindric, to 1.5 mm; endostome basal membrane less than 1/4 endostome length, cilia short to reduced or occasionally as long as segments. <b>Spores</b> 10–14 µm.</span><!--

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|habitat=Rock, soil over rock outcrops
|elevation=high elevations (1600-2400 m)
|distribution=Alta.;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Mont.;Nev.;N.Mex.;S.Dak.;Tex.;Utah;Wyo.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Durango).
|discussion=<p><i>Brachytheciastrum fendleri</i>, when treated within <i>Brachythecium</i>, was synonymized with <i>B. collinum</i> by A. J. Grout (1928–1940, vol. 3), and in some checklists, for example, M. F. V. Corley et al. (1981); this resulted in a broad extension of the species range. However, <i>B. fendleri</i> is confined to the southern part of United States and northern Mexico, and was recently discovered in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta (R. T. Caners, pers. comm.). The often erect and ovate-elongate to cylindric capsules and the synoicous inflorescence are evident in most collections, allowing easy separation from <i>B. collinum</i>. Important comments on the differentiation of these species were provided by K. D. McFarland (1994). The branch leaves are more falcate and less plicate than the stem leaves.</p>
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name=Brachytheciastrum fendleri
|authority=(Sullivant) Ochyra & Zarnowiec
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Brachythecium fendleri
|basionyms=Leskea fendleri
|family=Brachytheciaceae
|habitat=Rock, soil over rock outcrops
|elevation=high elevations (1600-2400 m)
|distribution=Alta.;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Mont.;Nev.;N.Mex.;S.Dak.;Tex.;Utah;Wyo.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Durango).
|reference=None
|publication title=Biodivers. Poland
|publication year=2003
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Brachytheciastrum
|species=Brachytheciastrum fendleri
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