View source for Micromitrium megalosporum

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Micromitrium megalosporum
|accepted_authority=Austin
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Musci Appalach.,
|place=11. 1870,
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ephemerum megalosporum
|authority=(Austin) E. S. Salmon
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Nanomitrium megalosporum
|authority=(Austin) E. Britton
}}
|hierarchy=Ephemeraceae;Micromitrium;Micromitrium megalosporum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ephemeraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Micromitrium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Micromitrium megalosporum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 647, 648
|treatment_page=page 649
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>scattered or gregarious in usually sparse protonemata, yellow-green to orange-brown. <b>Stems</b> less than 0.2 mm. <b>Leaves</b> erect or spreading, broadly ovate-lanceolate and somewhat clasping at base, acuminate, 0.5–1.1 × 0.14–0.43 mm, margins usually ± incurved beyond the middle, entire proximally and distally entire to serrulate. <b>Sexual</b> condition synoicous. <b>Capsule</b> cleistocarpous or rarely dehiscing by a ring of differentiated cells distal to the equator, orange-brown, globose or slightly flattened, rarely broadly ovoid, with a short, broad apiculus; exothecial cells in 2 layers, stomates confined to distal half, sometimes absent. <b>Spores</b> fewer than 100, various shapes, proximal face only rarely concave, 55–83 × 37–67 µm, orange-brown.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature summer–winter, with some capsules persisting through spring with leaves intact or eroded.
|habitat=In sun or partial shade, unfertilized bare soil, sparsely vegetated turf
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (0-700 m)
|distribution=Ark.;Conn.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.C.;Pa.;Wis.;West Indies (Cuba);e Asia (Japan);Africa (Cameroon).
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Micromitrium megalosporum
|author=
|authority=Austin
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Nanomitrium megalosporum
|basionyms=Ephemerum megalosporum
|family=Ephemeraceae
|phenology=Capsules mature summer–winter, with some capsules persisting through spring with leaves intact or eroded.
|habitat=In sun or partial shade, unfertilized bare soil, sparsely vegetated turf
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (0-700 m)
|distribution=Ark.;Conn.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.C.;Pa.;Wis.;West Indies (Cuba);e Asia (Japan);Africa (Cameroon).
|reference=None
|publication title=Musci Appalach.,
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V27/V27_956.xml
|genus=Micromitrium
|species=Micromitrium megalosporum
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