View source for Entosthodon rubiginosus

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|accepted_name=Entosthodon rubiginosus
|accepted_authority=(R. S. Williams) Grout
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Moss Fl. N. Amer.
|place=2: 82. 1935,
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Funaria rubiginosa
|authority=R. S. Williams
|rank=species
|publication_title=Bryologist
|publication_place=16: 37, plate 4, figs. 10–19. 1913
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Funariaceae;Entosthodon;Entosthodon rubiginosus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Funariaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Entosthodon]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Entosthodon rubiginosus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 183
|treatment_page=page 188
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>3–5 mm, pale yellow-green. <b>Leaves</b> slightly contorted when dry, usually broadly ovate, 1.5–2.4 mm; margins entire or nearly so; apices acute to subacute, with a subulate tip; costa percurrent to excurrent into subula; basal laminal cells rectangular (75–100 × 30–40 µm), distal cells irregularly hexagonal to oblong rectangular, little differentiated at the margins. <b>Seta</b> 5–6 mm, straight. <b>Capsule</b> reddish brown with age, pyriform from a narrowed neck about half as long as the sporangium, about 2 mm, changing little when dry and empty, sometimes mouth flaring; exothecial cells thickened, narrowly oblong, with orange-brown walls, transversely elongate in 4–6 rows below the mouth; operculum convex-conic; peristome absent or rudimentary, exostome teeth pale brownish yellow, barely extending beyond the capsule rim and terminating in a rather blunt to short-acute point, slightly papillose, 2–3 articulations present, endostome not seen. <b>Calyptra</b> cucullate, long-beaked, inflated around the capsule, large, smooth. <b>Spores</b> 25–35 µm, rough (probably bacculate-insulate).</span><!--

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|habitat=Sandy or silt-rich soil along river banks, gullies, seepage slopes, alkaline sloughs, and washes
|elevation=moderate elevations
|distribution=B.C.;Mont.;N.Mex.;Tex.
|discussion=<p>Portions of the above description of <i>Entosthodon rubiginosus</i> are based upon the original one by Williams. This species has been found recently at two new locations in British Columbia (T. T. McIntosh, pers. comm.).</p>
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name=Entosthodon rubiginosus
|authority=(R. S. Williams) Grout
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Funaria rubiginosa
|family=Funariaceae
|habitat=Sandy or silt-rich soil along river banks, gullies, seepage slopes, alkaline sloughs, and washes
|elevation=moderate elevations
|distribution=B.C.;Mont.;N.Mex.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Moss Fl. N. Amer.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Entosthodon
|species=Entosthodon rubiginosus
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