View source for Schistidium pulchrum

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|accepted_name=Schistidium pulchrum
|accepted_authority=H. H. Blom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bryophyt. Biblioth.
|place=49: 119, fig. 41. 1996,
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Grimmiaceae;Grimmiaceae subfam. Grimmioideae;Schistidium;Schistidium pulchrum
|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 pulchrum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 210, 222
|treatment_page=page 221
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>in open to compact tufts, (yellow-)green, olivaceous, sometimes brownish or blackish. <b>Stems</b> 1.2–5 cm, central strand distinct. <b>Leaves</b> erect or curved, sometimes imbricate but usually with spreading leaf tips, sometimes weakly contorted, ovate-lanceolate, sharply keeled distally, 1.5–2.3 mm, 1-stratose, rarely 2-stratose in striae distally; margins usually recurved to near apex, smooth but sometimes slightly toothed along decurrent portion of awn, 1- or 2-stratose; apices acute or sub-obtuse; costa usually excurrent as a denticulate or spinulose-denticulate, straight or flexuose, usually bright white (sharply contrasting with the lamina), strongly decurrent awn, smooth; basal marginal cells quadrate or rectangular, trigonous; distal laminal cells variable in shape and size, isodiametric or short-rectangular, strongly trigonous, often guttulate and, occasionally, with stellate lumina, especially at mid leaf, 8–11 µm wide, smooth, strongly sinuose. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous. <b>Capsule</b> orange-brown or reddish brown, cylindric, 0.8–1.3 mm; exothecial cells often irregularly shaped, mostly isodiametric or oblate, occasionally mixed with a few elongate cells, thin-walled, walls sometimes curved, often with small trigones; stomata present; peristome patent to recurved, often twisted, 250–450 µm, red, densely papillose, usually weakly perforated. <b>Spores</b> 11–15 µm, finely granulose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature late spring to early summer.
|habitat=Rocks in somewhat shaded habitats
|elevation=low to high elevations (0-2500 m)
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Mich.;Minn.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wis.;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p>Although <i>Schistidium pulchrum</i> is variable in color and size, its bright awns that sharply contrast with the leaves and its strongly trigonous laminal cells, sometimes forming stellate lumina, especially near mid leaf, distinguish it.</p>
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name=Schistidium pulchrum
|author=
|authority=H. H. Blom
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Grimmiaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature late spring to early summer.
|habitat=Rocks in somewhat shaded habitats
|elevation=low to high elevations (0-2500 m)
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Mich.;Minn.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wis.;Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bryophyt. Biblioth.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Grimmiaceae subfam. Grimmioideae
|genus=Schistidium
|species=Schistidium pulchrum
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