View source for Tetraplodon mnioides

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|accepted_name=Tetraplodon mnioides
|accepted_authority=(Hedwig) Bruch & Schimper
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bryol. Europ.
|place=3: 215. 1844
|year=1844
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Splachnum mnioides
|authority=Hedwig
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Musc. Frond.,
|publication_place=51. 1801
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Splachnaceae;Tetraplodon;Tetraplodon mnioides
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Splachnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tetraplodon]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Tetraplodon mnioides]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 21, 22, 27
|treatment_page=page 23
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>1–4(–8) cm, light green or yellow-green. <b>Leaves</b> oblong-ovate, concave, 1–2 × 3–5 mm; margins entire; apex abruptly subulate; costa vanishing in subula; distal laminal cells rectangular to oblong-hexagonal, 20 × 35 µm. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous. <b>Seta</b> stramineous, usually dark red with age, 1–5 cm. <b>Capsule</b> not cleistocarpous, red, dark or black with age, long-ovate; hypophysis somewhat wider than urn distally; stomata over whole of hypophysis; operculum bluntly conic. <b>Calyptra</b> conic-mitrate. <b>Spores</b> 9–12 µm, smooth or slightly papillose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature summer.
|habitat=Dung of carnivores, old bones, owl pellets, dry alpine, boreal, arctic habitats
|elevation=low to high elevations
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;N.S.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Maine;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Oreg.;Vt.;Wash.;W.Va.;n Europe;Asia.
|discussion=<p><i>Tetraplodon mnioides</i> is much more common than other species of the genus and is readily distinguished; the plants differ from those of <i>T. angustatus</i> by their larger tufts and longer sporophytes, which are dark red, becoming black with age. Sterile plants of <i>T. mnioides</i> differ from those of <i>T. angustatus</i> by their oblong-ovate, abruptly subulate leaves with entire margins, whereas those of <i>T. angustatus</i> are oblong-lanceolate, gradually subulate, and serrate. The distal laminal cell walls of <i>T. mnioides</i> are rather thin.</p>
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name=Tetraplodon mnioides
|authority=(Hedwig) Bruch & Schimper
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Splachnum mnioides
|family=Splachnaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature summer.
|habitat=Dung of carnivores, old bones, owl pellets, dry alpine, boreal, arctic habitats
|elevation=low to high elevations
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;N.S.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Maine;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Oreg.;Vt.;Wash.;W.Va.;n Europe;Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bryol. Europ.
|publication year=1844
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V28/V28_16.xml
|genus=Tetraplodon
|species=Tetraplodon mnioides
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