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|accepted_name=Schistidium venetum
|accepted_authority=H. H. Blom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bryophyt. Biblioth.
|place=49: 192, fig. 76. 1996,
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Grimmiaceae;Grimmiaceae subfam. Grimmioideae;Schistidium;Schistidium venetum
|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 venetum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 210
|treatment_page=page 225
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>in small or sometimes extensive tufts, olivaceous, often with a yellowish or brownish tinge. <b>Stems</b> 1–3.8 cm, central strand distinct. <b>Leaves</b> erect or curved, usually imbricate, ovate-lanceolate to ovate-triangular, broadly keeled distally, 1.2–1.7(–2) mm, 1-stratose with 2-stratose patches or evenly 2-stratose distally; margins recurved to near apex, smooth, usually 2-stratose, occasionally multistratose; apices acute or blunt; costa sub-percurrent or excurrent as a lightly denticulate, usually broad-based, and flexuose awn that often embraces a portion of the leaf apex, smooth; basal marginal cells quadrate or short-rectangular; distal laminal cells ovate or short-rectangular, 6–10 µm wide, sinuose, trigonous. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous. <b>Capsule</b> red- or orange-brown, short-cylindric, 0.8–1.1(–1.3) mm; exothecial cells mostly elongate, mixed with isodiametric and a few oblate cells, thin-walled, sometimes trigonous; stomata present; peristome patent to recurved, sometimes twisted, 270–440 µm, bright red or orange, densely papillose, strongly perforated with uneven margins. <b>Spores</b> 8–12 µm, granulose or nearly smooth.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature late spring to early summer.
|habitat=Wet ground of arctic fens, tundra, and drainage channels
|elevation=low elevations (0-100 m)
|distribution=Greenland;B.C.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Que.;Wash.;Europe.
|discussion=<p><i>Schistidium venetum</i> is a distinctive, rather small species characterized by patchy or completely 2-stratose distal laminae, a lightly denticulate and usually broad-based awn that frequently embraces the upper portions of the lamina, and strongly perforated, uneven-sided peristome teeth.</p>
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name=Schistidium venetum
|author=
|authority=H. H. Blom
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Grimmiaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature late spring to early summer.
|habitat=Wet ground of arctic fens, tundra, and drainage channels
|elevation=low elevations (0-100 m)
|distribution=Greenland;B.C.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Que.;Wash.;Europe.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bryophyt. Biblioth.
|publication year=
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|subfamily=Grimmiaceae subfam. Grimmioideae
|genus=Schistidium
|species=Schistidium venetum
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