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|accepted_name=Dicranodontium uncinatum
|accepted_authority=(Harvey) A. Jaeger
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ber. Thätigk. St. Gallischen Naturwiss. Ges.
|place=1877–1878: 380. 1880,
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Thysanomitrium uncinatum
|authority=Harvey
|rank=species
|publication_title=Icon. Pl.
|publication_place=1: plate 22, fig. 5. 1836
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Dicranaceae;Dicranodontium;Dicranodontium uncinatum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Dicranaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Dicranodontium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Dicranodontium uncinatum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 394
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>brown proximally, yellowish green or yellowish brown to dark green distally, glossy, in loose to dense tufts. <b>Stems</b> 2–8(–14) cm, radiculose proximally with reddish brown rhizoids. <b>Leaves</b> falcate-secund, especially at stem apices, sometimes erect and flexuose, spreading at ca. 30º when wet, 5–10 mm, occasionally deciduous, somewhat abruptly narrowed from an ovate to oblong base into a setaceous subula, subtubulose proximally, channeled distally, margins entire proximally, serrate to serrulate near apex, apex acute; costa distinct, occupying ca. 1/5–1/3 of leaf base; cells thick-walled and pitted only in leaf base, distal cells linear, 24–56 × 5–9 µm, basal cells broadly rectangular, hyaline, ca. 16 µm wide, alar cells not forming auricles, thin-walled, hyaline. <b>Seta</b> 8–11 mm, erect-sinuose to cygneous. <b>Capsule</b> 1–1.8 mm; operculum straight, ca. 1 mm. <b>Spores</b> 16–17 µm.</span><!--

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|habitat=Dry or damp, acidic cliffs, primarily cliff ledges, sometimes on overturned tree roots and rotten logs in forests
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (0-900 m)
|distribution=B.C.;Alaska;Europe;Asia.
|discussion=<p>Sporophytes are not known or reported for North American plants of <i>Dicranodontium uncinatum</i>. H. C. Gangulee (1971) reported them for eastern India where the plants fruited in October with capsules containing spores 16–17 µm. The largest North American species of the genus, <i>D. uncinatum</i> has stems usually 2–8 cm, sometimes up to 14 cm. It is easily recognized by its hook-shaped leaves. It is often confused with <i>D. denudatum</i>, which has shorter leaves, mostly less than 8 mm, auriculate, with an indistinct costa and alar cells that are narrowly rectangular and usually reddish. In <i>D. uncinatum</i> the cells distal to the alar region and adjacent to the costa are broadly rectangular and hyaline.</p>
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name=Dicranodontium uncinatum
|authority=(Harvey) A. Jaeger
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Thysanomitrium uncinatum
|family=Dicranaceae
|habitat=Dry or damp, acidic cliffs, primarily cliff ledges, sometimes on overturned tree roots and rotten logs in forests
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (0-900 m)
|distribution=B.C.;Alaska;Europe;Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ber. Thätigk. St. Gallischen Naturwiss. Ges.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Dicranodontium
|species=Dicranodontium uncinatum
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