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|accepted_name=Syntrichia chisosa
|accepted_authority=(Magill Delgadillo & L. R. Stark) R. H. Zander
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci.
|place=32: 269. 1993,
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Tortula chisosa
|authority=Magill, Delgadillo & L. R. Stark
|rank=species
|publication_title=Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
|publication_place=70: 200, figs. 1–9. 1983
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Pottiaceae;Pottiaceae subfam. Pottioideae;Syntrichia;Syntrichia chisosa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pottiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Pottiaceae subfam. Pottioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Syntrichia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Syntrichia chisosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 618, 621, 623
|treatment_page=page 622
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>2–6 mm. <b>Leaves</b> infolded and spirally twisted around the stem when dry, wide-spreading to squarrose-recurved when moist, spatulate, 1.5–2.5 × 0.6–0.8(–1) mm, distally 2-stratose, occasionally with 1-stratose patches; margins plane, entire; apices acute to truncate; costa excurrent into a short, 0.02–0.1 mm mucro, red, rounded and sharply serrate with hyaline teeth abaxially; basal cells abruptly differentiated, those near the margin smaller, short-rectangular; distal cells hexagonal to irregularly polygonal, or isodiametric, 8–12(–13) µm, densely papillose with 3–5 papillae per cell, bulging, moderately thick-walled, not collenchymatous, obscure. <b>Specialized</b> asexual reproduction by propagula borne on stalks in axils of distal leaves, leaf-like, squarrose-recurved, 0.25–0.45 mm, green, papillose, costate, with an apiculus of 1-several elongate, smooth cells. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous (perigonia and sporophytes unknown).</span><!--

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|habitat=Locally common in desert scrub, thin soil in crevices of rocks, soil around bases of shrubs and boulders
|elevation=moderate to high elevations (about 1500-2700 m)
|distribution=N.Mex.;Okla.;Tex.;Mexico;s Africa.
|discussion=<p>Distinguishing features of <i>Syntrichia chisosa</i> include the 2-stratose laminae, strongly serrate abaxial surface of the costa, plane leaf margins, mucronate apex, and costate, foliose propagula. In the northern part of its range, the species frequently occurs with <i>S. bartramii</i> (see comments thereunder). <i>Syntrichia chisosa</i> also occurs with <i>S. fragilis</i>, and the two may be confused because of a superficially similar habit, color, and dry leaf stance, but <i>S. chisosa</i> can be distinguished with a handlens by non-fragile leaves, a fuzzy appearance of the back of the costa, and usually abundant propagula, and, under a compound microscope, by smaller, 2-stratose, and relatively obscure laminal cells.</p>
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name=Syntrichia chisosa
|authority=(Magill Delgadillo & L. R. Stark) R. H. Zander
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Tortula chisosa
|family=Pottiaceae
|habitat=Locally common in desert scrub, thin soil in crevices of rocks, soil around bases of shrubs and boulders
|elevation=moderate to high elevations (about 1500-2700 m)
|distribution=N.Mex.;Okla.;Tex.;Mexico;s Africa.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Pottiaceae subfam. Pottioideae
|genus=Syntrichia
|species=Syntrichia chisosa
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