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|accepted_name=Sphagnum fallax
|accepted_authority=(H. Klinggräff) H. Klinggräff
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Vers. Topogr. Fl. Westpreuss.,
|place=128. 1880,
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Sphagnum cuspidatum var. fallax
|authority=H. Klinggräff
|publication_title=Schriften Phys.-Ökon. Ges. Königsberg
|publication_place=13: 7. 1872
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sphagnum apiculatum
|authority=(Russow) Zickendrath
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|name=Sphagnum flexuosum var. fallax
|authority=(H. Klinggräff) A. J. E. Smith
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sphagnum mucronatum
|authority=unknown
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sphagnum recurvum var. brevifolium
|authority=(Braithwaite) Warnstorf
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sphagnum recurvum var. fallax
|authority=(H. Klinggräff) H. K. G. Paul
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sphagnum recurvum subsp. mucronatum
|authority=Russow
}}
|hierarchy=Sphagnaceae;Sphagnum;Sphagnum sect. Cuspidata;Sphagnum fallax
|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. Cuspidata]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sphagnum fallax]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 63, 64, 66, 68, 76, 89, 92, 94, 96, 97
|treatment_page=page 67
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>moderate-sized, fairly stiff-stemmed; green, brownish green, pale yellow, golden yellow, yellow and brown; capitulum hemispherical and not 5-radiate to somewhat 5-radiate in shade-grown or wet-grown forms. <b>Stems</b> pale green to pale brown, superficial cortex of 2 layers of moderately differentiated cells. <b>Stem</b> leaves triangular to lingulate-triangular, 0.8–1.2 mm, mostly appressed to the stem, apex acute to apiculate, hyaline cells mostly efibrillose and nonseptate. <b>Branches</b> straight, mostly unranked, but can be 5-ranked in wet-growing forms, leaves little elongated at distal branch ends. <b>Branch</b> fascicles with 2 spreading and 2–3 pendent branches. <b>Branch</b> stems green but proximal end sometimes red, with cortex enlarged with conspicuous retort cells. <b>Branch</b> leaves ovate-lanceolate, greater than 1.2 mm, straight, undulate and sharply recurved when dry, margins entire; hyaline cells on convex surface with usually 1 round pore per cell at apical end, on concave side with round wall thinnings in the cell ends and angles; chlorophyllous cells triangular and just reaching or slightly enclosed within the concave surface. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous. <b>Spores</b> 25–31 µm; proximal surface finely papillose, distal surface pusticulate with bifurcated Y-mark sculpture; proximal laesura less than 0.5 spore radius.</span><!--

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|habitat=Widespread in poor fen habitats, often as a pioneer species in extensive mats, occasionally in ombrotrophic mires at hummock bases
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Europe.
|discussion=<p><i>Sphagnum fallax</i> can be distinguished from the closely related <i>S. isoviitae</i> by its sharply recurved branch leaves, as opposed to the leaves of the latter only slightly reflexed at their tips. See also discussion under 26. <i>S. brevifolium</i> and 46. <i>S. splendens</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Sphagnum fallax
|author=
|authority=(H. Klinggräff) H. Klinggräff
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Sphagnum apiculatum;Sphagnum flexuosum var. fallax;Sphagnum mucronatum;Sphagnum recurvum var. brevifolium;Sphagnum recurvum var. fallax;Sphagnum recurvum subsp. mucronatum
|basionyms=Sphagnum cuspidatum var. fallax
|family=Sphagnaceae
|habitat=Widespread in poor fen habitats, often as a pioneer species in extensive mats, occasionally in ombrotrophic mires at hummock bases
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Europe.
|reference=None
|publication title=Vers. Topogr. Fl. Westpreuss.,
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V27/V27_40.xml
|genus=Sphagnum
|section=Sphagnum sect. Cuspidata
|species=Sphagnum fallax
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