View source for Dicranum fuscescens var. flexicaule

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|accepted_name=Dicranum fuscescens var. flexicaule
|accepted_authority=(Bridel) Wilson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bryol. Brit.,
|place=77. 1855,
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Dicranum flexicaule
|authority=
|rank=species
|publication_title=Bryol. Univ.
|publication_place=1: 421. 1826
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Dicranaceae;Dicranum;Dicranum fuscescens;Dicranum fuscescens var. flexicaule
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Dicranaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Dicranum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Dicranum fuscescens]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>variety</small>[[Dicranum fuscescens var. flexicaule]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 412
|treatment_page=page 413
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>in loose tufts. <b>Stems</b> 8-18 cm, scarcely tomentose. <b>Leaves</b> strongly falcate-secund, somewhat sparse; margins nearly entire; costa almost smooth on abaxial surface; proximal laminal cells elongate, (19–)42–54(–84) × (5–)7–9(–12) µm; distal laminal cells irregularly rounded, elliptic or short-rectangular, (7–)9–19(–36) × (4–)8–9(–13) µm. <b>Seta</b> 2.5–3.5 cm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature summer.
|habitat=Moist humus banks, humus on coniferous forest floors, and bogs on small conifers (often black spruce)
|elevation=900-1300 m
|distribution=B.C.;N.W.T.;Que.;Yukon;Europe.
|discussion=<p>Variety flexicaule is an arctic-alpine taxon that needs further collecting and study to determine its taxonomic status. J. Kucyniak (in D. Löve et al. 1958) called attention to it in the Quebec bryoflora and many European bryologists recognize it as a form (W. Mönkemeyer 1927), variety (J. Podpera 1954; L. I. Savicz-Lubitzkaya and Z. N. Smirnova 1970; V. M. Melnichuk 1970), or species (E. Nyholm 1986+, fasc. 1). It is immediately noticed because of the large size of the plants, whose stems are up to 18 cm, sparsely foliated with strongly falcate-secund leaves, and the long seta, 2.5–3.5 cm. It is further recognized microscopically by the irregular shape of the distal leaf cells, the nearly entire leaf margins, and the costa almost smooth on the abaxial surface.</p>
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name=Dicranum fuscescens var. flexicaule
|authority=(Bridel) Wilson
|rank=variety
|parent rank=species
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Dicranum flexicaule
|family=Dicranaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature summer.
|habitat=Moist humus banks, humus on coniferous forest floors, and bogs on small conifers (often black spruce)
|elevation=900-1300 m
|distribution=B.C.;N.W.T.;Que.;Yukon;Europe.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bryol. Brit.,
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Dicranum
|species=Dicranum fuscescens
|variety=Dicranum fuscescens var. flexicaule
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