View source for Gemmabryum ruderale

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|accepted_name=Gemmabryum ruderale
|accepted_authority=(Crundwell & Nyholm) J. R. Spence
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=89: 111. 2007
|year=2007
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Bryum ruderale
|authority=Crundwell & Nyholm
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Bryaceae;Gemmabryum;Gemmabryum sect. Tuberibryum;Gemmabryum ruderale
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Bryaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Gemmabryum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Gemmabryum sect. Tuberibryum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Gemmabryum ruderale]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 137, 139, 140
|treatment_page=page 138
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small, green or yellow-green, often with reddish tinge. <b>Stems</b> 0.4–2(–3) cm; rhizoids red-violet to deep red. <b>Leaves</b> loosely set, ovate-lanceolate, weakly concave, 0.4–1(–1.5) mm; base not decurrent; margins plane to weakly revolute proximally, entire to serrulate distally, limbidium absent; apex acute; costa short-excurrent, awn stout; alar cells similar to adjacent juxtacostal cells; proximal laminal cells abruptly quadrate to short-rectangular, 2–4:1; medial and distal cells (30–)40–60 × 8–14 µm, 3–4:1. <b>Specialized</b> asexual reproduction by rhizoidal tubers, on long rhizoids in soil, purple-red or rarely orange, irregularly spheric, (120–)150–200 µm, cells 25–50 µm, smooth. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous. [Capsule inclined or nutant, 1–3 mm].</span><!--

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|habitat=Damp disturbed soil, sand
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (0-1200 m)
|distribution=Ont.;Ariz.;Calif.;La.;Tex.;Eurasia;n;s Africa;Atlantic Islands (Macaronesia);Pacific Islands (New Zealand).
|discussion=<p>Gemmabryum ruderale is characterized by red-purple to violet rhizoids and relatively large, spheric, purple-red rhizoidal tubers. In the flora area, this species is probably introduced.</p>
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name=Gemmabryum ruderale
|author=
|authority=(Crundwell & Nyholm) J. R. Spence
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Bryum ruderale
|family=Bryaceae
|habitat=Damp disturbed soil, sand
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (0-1200 m)
|distribution=Ont.;Ariz.;Calif.;La.;Tex.;Eurasia;n;s Africa;Atlantic Islands (Macaronesia);Pacific Islands (New Zealand).
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=2007
|special status=
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|genus=Gemmabryum
|section=Gemmabryum sect. Tuberibryum
|species=Gemmabryum ruderale
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