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|accepted_name=Schistidium flexipile
|accepted_authority=(Lindberg ex Brotherus) G. Roth
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Eur. Laubm.
|place=1: 563. 1904,
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Grimmia flexipilis
|authority=Lindberg ex Brotherus
|publication_title=Acta Soc. Sci. Fenn.
|publication_place=19(12): 92. 1892
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Grimmiaceae;Grimmiaceae subfam. Grimmioideae;Schistidium;Schistidium flexipile
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Grimmiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Grimmiaceae subfam. Grimmioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Schistidium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Schistidium flexipile]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 210
|treatment_page=page 217
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>in compact tufts or mats, (yellow-) green or olivaceous. <b>Stems</b> 1.3–3(–4) cm, central strand weak or absent. <b>Leaves</b> usually curved, often falcate-secund, sometimes erect, imbricate when dry, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, keeled distally, 1.7–2.4 mm, 1-stratose to, rarely, 2-stratose in striae distally; margins usually recurved to apex, smooth, usually 2-stratose, sometimes 1-stratose or multistratose; apices acute or sub-obtuse; costa percurrent or excurrent as a smooth or weakly denticulate, usually non-decurrent, flexuose awn, sometimes embracing part of the lamina, smooth; basal marginal cells quadrate or short-rectangular; distal laminal cells quadrate or short-rectangular, 8–10 µm wide, smooth, sinuose. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous. <b>Capsule</b> orange-brown or red-brown, short-cylindric to cylindric, 0.8–1.3 mm; exothecial cells usually a mix of isodiametric, short-elongate, and oblate cells, thin-walled, walls often curved, usually trigonous; stomata present; peristome recurved to squarrose-recurved, sometimes twisted, 260–430 µm, orange or reddish orange, weakly papillose, usually strongly perforated. <b>Spores</b> 11–17 µm, granulose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature late spring to early summer.
|habitat=Dry to seasonally moist rocks and ledges
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (0-500 m)
|distribution=Greenland;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);Nunavut;Que.;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p>The falcate, often distally secund leaves as well as the green color readily characterize <i>Schistidium flexipile</i>. Its short, narrow, and smooth-margined leaves also help to distinguish is from the closely related <i>S. apocarpum</i>.</p>
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name=Schistidium flexipile
|author=
|authority=(Lindberg ex Brotherus) G. Roth
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Grimmia flexipilis
|family=Grimmiaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature late spring to early summer.
|habitat=Dry to seasonally moist rocks and ledges
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (0-500 m)
|distribution=Greenland;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);Nunavut;Que.;Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Eur. Laubm.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Grimmiaceae subfam. Grimmioideae
|genus=Schistidium
|species=Schistidium flexipile
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