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|accepted_name=Symblepharis vaginata
|accepted_authority=(Hooker) Wijk & Margadant
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Taxon
|place=8: 75. 1959,
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Didymodon vaginatus
|authority=Hooker
|rank=species
|publication_title=Icon. Pl.
|publication_place=1: plate 18, fig. 4. 1837
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Symblepharis helicophylla
|authority=Montagne
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Dicranaceae;Symblepharis;Symblepharis vaginata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Dicranaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Symblepharis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Symblepharis vaginata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 432
|treatment_page=page 431
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>ca. 0.8–1.2(–3) cm, leaves spreading, flexuose, and sub-falcate when wet, crisped and tortuose when dry, sparingly radiculose at the base. <b>Leaves</b> 6–7 mm, leaf base broader at the undulating shoulders than the extreme base, with a narrow, fragile decurrency, margins plane, distantly denticulate distally, sharply serrulate near the apex; basal cells smooth, elongate-rectangular to linear, 65–85 µm, narrowly long-rectangular, thin-walled, not porose, clear, medial lamina cells irregularly short-rectangular to subquadrate, 10–12.5 × 6–8 µm, thick-walled, 1-stratose except for irregular 2-stratose patches on the distal margins. <b>Seta</b> 10–12 mm, straight, single or occasionally clustered in groups of 2–4. <b>Capsule</b> yellow, 3–4 mm, deep red at the mouth, smooth to weakly and irregularly striate in older capsules; peristome inserted below the mouth; operculum ca. 0.8 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature winter.
|habitat=Rotting punky, sometimes charred logs, less commonly on bark at base of trees, rock, soil in coniferous forests
|elevation=high elevations (2200-3100 M), occasionally to 3800 m
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Mexico;Central America (Costa Rica;Guatemala;Panama);Asia (China;India;Japan;Korea;Papua New Guinea).
|discussion=<p>Stem growth beyond an apparently lateral sporophyte is actually the extension of a subperichaetial branch (sympodial branching). As in <i>Symblepharis</i>, all three species of <i>Oncophorus</i> in North America have bistratose leaf margins; the blade of <i>O. rauei</i> is bistratose throughout its distal lamina in addition to the margins. <i>Oncophorus virens</i> does not have a clasping leaf base, and the distal portion of the blade tapers gradually to the apex. The gametophyte of <i>S. vaginata</i> is, however, nearly identical with that of <i>O. wahlenbergii</i>, except it is of a relatively clear yellow, whereas <i>O. wahlenbergii</i> is a sooty, fuscous yellow. One useful character with which to distinguish these two species when sterile is the leaf cross section. The leaf of <i>S. vaginata</i> is histologically reduced: the adaxial epidermis is absent at mid leaf and, distally even the adaxial stereid band vanishes, leaving only the guide cell layer. In <i>O. wahlenbergii</i> the mid leaf costa is robust, and the adaxial epidermis layer is prominent.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Symblepharis vaginata
|authority=(Hooker) Wijk & Margadant
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Symblepharis helicophylla
|basionyms=Didymodon vaginatus
|family=Dicranaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature winter.
|habitat=Rotting punky, sometimes charred logs, less commonly on bark at base of trees, rock, soil in coniferous forests
|elevation=high elevations (2200-3100 M), occasionally to 3800 m
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Mexico;Central America (Costa Rica;Guatemala;Panama);Asia (China;India;Japan;Korea;Papua New Guinea).
|reference=None
|publication title=Taxon
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Symblepharis
|species=Symblepharis vaginata
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