View source for Dicranella pacifica

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|accepted_name=Dicranella pacifica
|accepted_authority=W. B. Schofield
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bryologist
|place=73: 703. 1970,
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Dicranaceae;Dicranella;Dicranella pacifica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Dicranaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Dicranella]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Dicranella pacifica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 387
|treatment_page=page 390
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>2.5–4 cm, yellowish, brownish, or dark green. <b>Leaves</b> erect-spreading and flexuose-crisped when dry, 2.5–4 mm, gradually narrowed from an ovate base to a long, slender, subtubulose subula; margins distinctly recurved below, erect or incurved above, serrulate at or near the slender apex; costa percurrent, filling most of the subula; distal cells subquadrate, 1–2:1 (ca. 17 × 10 µm), 2-stratose at the margins. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous. <b>Seta</b> red, 5–8 mm. <b>Capsule</b> inclined to horizontal, 0.8 mm, obovoid-oblong, curved, not strumose, smooth; annulus none; operculum-conic; peristome teeth ca. 425 µm, divided 1/2 length distally. <b>Spores</b> 15–17 µm, smooth.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature fall and winter.
|habitat=Wet, silty soil of roadside ditch banks and soil of cliff crevices
|elevation=low to medium elevations
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Wash.
|discussion=<p>Distinctive features of <i>Dicranella pacifica</i> include slender, flexuose-crisped, subtubulose leaves with margins recurved below but 2-stratose and incurved above, high-conic opercula, and annulus absent.</p>
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name=Dicranella pacifica
|author=
|authority=W. B. Schofield
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Dicranaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature fall and winter.
|habitat=Wet, silty soil of roadside ditch banks and soil of cliff crevices
|elevation=low to medium elevations
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bryologist
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Dicranella
|species=Dicranella pacifica
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