View source for Loeskypnum wickesiae

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|accepted_name=Loeskypnum wickesiae
|accepted_authority=(Grout) Tuomikoski
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Bot. Fenn.
|place=10: 216. 1973
|year=1973
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Calliergon wickesiae
|authority=Grout
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Calliergonaceae;Loeskypnum;Loeskypnum wickesiae
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Calliergonaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Loeskypnum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Loeskypnum wickesiae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 300, 394
|treatment_page=page 395
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>medium-sized. <b>Stem</b> leaves ± imbricate, ovate, oblong, or obovate, abruptly narrowed to apex, straight; apex broadly acute, rounded, or apiculate with apiculus curved in over leaf, often cucullate.</span><!--

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|habitat=Open, intermediately mineral-rich, mostly dry wetlands, fens, seepages
|elevation=low to high elevations
|distribution=Greenland;B.C.;Nfld. and Labr.;Que.;Alaska;N.Y.;e Asia (Japan;Russian Far East).
|discussion=<p><i>Loeskypnum wickesiae</i> is similar to <i>L. badium</i> in the frequently golden brown or coppery brown color, normally sparsely branched shoots, and strongly concave leaves, but differs in its straight, acute or rounded, apiculate leaves. This species could be confused with <i>Pseudocalliergon trifarium</i> (Amblystegiaceae), but the latter usually grows in more mineral-rich habitats, has less strongly concave, more broadly ovate leaves with a broadly rounded apex (no apiculus), lacks rhizoid initials in the leaves, and has elongate-rectangular alar cells in larger groups than in <i>L. wickesiae</i>. <i>Loeskypnum wickesiae</i> could be confused with <i>Straminergon stramineum</i>, but the latter is pale or whitish green to yellow-green, has a rounded leaf apex without apiculus, and has inflated and hyaline (brownish when old), thin-walled or ± incrassate alar cells in well-differentiated ovate or broadly ovate regions along the basal leaf margins.</p>
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name=Loeskypnum wickesiae
|author=
|authority=(Grout) Tuomikoski
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Calliergon wickesiae
|family=Calliergonaceae
|habitat=Open, intermediately mineral-rich, mostly dry wetlands, fens, seepages
|elevation=low to high elevations
|distribution=Greenland;B.C.;Nfld. and Labr.;Que.;Alaska;N.Y.;e Asia (Japan;Russian Far East).
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Bot. Fenn.
|publication year=1973
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Loeskypnum
|species=Loeskypnum wickesiae
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