View source for Sphagnum subnitens

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|accepted_name=Sphagnum subnitens
|accepted_authority=Russow & Warnstorf
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Verh. Bot. Vereins Prov. Brandenburg
|place=30: 115, plate 3, fig. 9, plate 4, figs. 22, 23. 1888,
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|hierarchy=Sphagnaceae;Sphagnum;Sphagnum sect. Acutifolia;Sphagnum subnitens
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Sphagnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sphagnum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Sphagnum sect. Acutifolia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sphagnum subnitens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 87, 88, 91, 92, 95
|treatment_page=page 98
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>moderate-sized, relatively robust, smaller in exposed sites, elongated in shaded sites, soft, capitulum ± large; pale green, green, yellowish, yellow-brown, brown, pinkish, purplish; with strong metallic sheen when dry. <b>Stems</b> brown or purplish; superficial cortical cells aporose. <b>Stem</b> leaves triangular to triangular-lingulate, 1.2–1.7 mm, apex acute to sometimes shortly cuspidate due to involute margins near apex, border narrow at base (less than 0.25 width); hyaline cells mostly efibrillose and aporose, 0–1(–2)-septate. <b>Branches</b> long and tapering, unranked. <b>Branch</b> fascicles with 2 spreading and 1–2 pendent branches. <b>Branch</b> leaves 1.3–2.7 mm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.3–2.7 mm, concave, straight, apex involute; hyaline cells on convex surface with 2–6 large, narrowly elliptic ringed pores along the commissures, but usually absent from marginal regions of leaf, concave surface aporose or with 1–4 large round pores per cell especially near base. <b>Sexual</b> condition monoicous. <b>Spores</b> 22–32 µm, finely to irregularly coarsely-papillose on proximal surface, irregularly coarsely papillose on distal surface; proximal laesura less than 0.5 spore radius.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature early summer.
|habitat=Coastal oceanic mires that range from weakly to moderately minerotrophic
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.;Eurasia;Pacific Islands (New Zealand).
|discussion=<p>Sporophytes are common in <i>Sphagnum subnitens</i>. The ecology of this species is unclear because of past taxonomic confusion with <i>S. subfulvum</i>. However, the two clearly differ in gametophyte and spore morphology (K. I. Flatberg 1985; Cao T. and D. H. Vitt 1986). The metallic sheen and strongly pointed stem leaves will distinguish this species from the somewhat similar <i>S. capillifolium</i>. See also discussion under 83. <i>S. subfulvum</i>.</p>
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name=Sphagnum subnitens
|author=
|authority=Russow & Warnstorf
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Sphagnaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature early summer.
|habitat=Coastal oceanic mires that range from weakly to moderately minerotrophic
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.;Eurasia;Pacific Islands (New Zealand).
|reference=None
|publication title=Verh. Bot. Vereins Prov. Brandenburg
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|genus=Sphagnum
|section=Sphagnum sect. Acutifolia
|species=Sphagnum subnitens
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