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|accepted_name=Brachythecium salebrosum
|accepted_authority=(Hoffmann ex F. Weber & D. Mohr) Schimper in P. Bruch and W. P. Schimper
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in P. Bruch and W. P. Schimper, Bryol. Europ.
|place=6: 20. 1853
|year=1853
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Hypnum salebrosum
|authority=Hoffmann ex F. Weber & D. Mohr
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Brachythecium flexicaule
|authority=Renauld & Cardot
}}
|hierarchy=Brachytheciaceae;Brachythecium;Brachythecium salebrosum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brachytheciaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Brachythecium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Brachythecium salebrosum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 415, 419, 422, 423, 426, 428
|treatment_page=page 425
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>medium-sized to large, in moderately dense mats, green, yellowish, brownish, or brownish yellow. <b>Stems</b> to 8 cm, creeping, terete-foliate, irregularly or often regularly pinnate, branches to 8 mm, straight to slightly curved, terete- to subcomplanate-foliate. <b>Stem</b> leaves erect to erect-spreading, loosely imbricate to somewhat spaced, ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate, or narrowly ovate-triangular, broadest at 1/10–1/7 leaf length, slightly concave, plicate, 1.7–2.6 × 0.6–1 mm; base shortly rounded, narrowly short-decurrent; margins plane or recurved at places, serrulate to serrate; apex gradually tapered or long-acuminate; costa to 60–75% leaf length, strong, terminal spine present; alar cells subquadrate to short-rectangular, same size as or smaller than basal cells, 12–20 × 10–13 µm, walls moderately thick, region clearly delimited, of 3–6 × 3–5 cells; laminal cells linear, 40–100 × 6–9 µm; basal cells to 10–12 µm wide, region in 1 or 2 rows, not markedly different from more distal cells. <b>Branch</b> leaves with basal laminal cells enlarged across base. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous. <b>Seta</b> orange-brown to dark brown, 1–2 cm, smooth. <b>Capsule</b> horizontal, brown to dark brown, elongate, curved, 2 mm; annulus separating by fragments; operculum long-conic. <b>Spores</b> 13–17 µm.</span><!--

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|habitat=Soil, rock, tree bases, rotten logs, exposed to shady habitats
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (0-1500 m)
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Calif.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Utah;Eurasia;n Africa;Australia.
|discussion=<p><i>Brachythecium salebrosum</i> was considered widespread in North America, but a revision of herbarium collections from eastern North America demonstrated mostly <i>B. acutum</i>, <i>B. campestre</i>, <i>B. rotaeanum</i>, and marginal phenotypes of <i>B. laetum</i> among these. However, plants of <i>B. salebrosum</i> that are identical with European plants occur in western North America and in eastern Canada. <i>Brachythecium salebrosum</i> is characterized by slightly falcate, plicate, and lanceolate leaves, rather distinctly serrulate leaf margins, narrow laminal cells almost reaching the leaf base near the costa, and a small quadrate alar region composed of subquadrate cells. <i>Brachythecium salebrosum</i> is autoicous, and this distinguishes it from <i>B. laetum</i>. <i>Brachythecium rotaeanum</i> has erect-appressed and usually not falcate leaves and a basal areolation that is more homogeneous, without a clear angular group and with rather lax areolation in the basal juxtacostal area. <i>Brachythecium acutum</i> has a lax and even basal areolation and gradually tapering leaves that are rarely falcate-secund. Sterile plants of <i>B. campestre</i> are difficult to separate from <i>B. salebrosum</i> as the most important character for delimitation is the rough seta in the former species. Well-developed sterile plants of <i>B. campestre</i> can be distinguished by the broadening of the leaf distal to the alar group resulting in a more or less lax supra-alar region of cells, but underdeveloped, sterile <i>B. campestre</i> is probably almost impossible to distinguish from <i>B. salebrosum</i>.</p>
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name=Brachythecium salebrosum
|author=
|authority=(Hoffmann ex F. Weber & D. Mohr) Schimper in P. Bruch and W. P. Schimper
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Brachythecium flexicaule
|basionyms=Hypnum salebrosum
|family=Brachytheciaceae
|habitat=Soil, rock, tree bases, rotten logs, exposed to shady habitats
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (0-1500 m)
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Calif.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Utah;Eurasia;n Africa;Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=in P. Bruch and W. P. Schimper, Bryol. Europ.
|publication year=1853
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|genus=Brachythecium
|species=Brachythecium salebrosum
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