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|accepted_name=Scopelophila ligulata
|accepted_authority=(Spruce) Spruce
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Bot.
|place=19: 14. 1881,
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Encalypta ligulata
|authority=Spruce
|publication_title=Musci Pyren., no.
|publication_place=331. 1847
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Merceya ligulata
|authority=(Spruce) Schimper
}}
|hierarchy=Pottiaceae;Pottiaceae subfam. Merceyoideae;Scopelophila;Scopelophila ligulata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pottiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Pottiaceae subfam. Merceyoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Scopelophila]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Scopelophila ligulata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 484
|treatment_page=page 485
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>with sparse brown rhizoids. <b>Cauline</b> leaves brownish black proximally; margins usually bordered by thick-walled cells; apex obtuse to acute; costa with 1 layer of parenchymatous cells adaxial to the stereid band. <b>Sporophytes</b> not seen in area of the flora.</span><!--

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|habitat=Soil and rock, cliffs and road cuts
|elevation=moderate to high elevations (300-1900 m)
|distribution=Ariz.;Ark.;Calif.;Ga.;Ill.;La.;Mich.;N.C.;Tenn.;Va.;Mexico;Central America;w South America;Europe;Asia;Africa.
|discussion=<p>The blackened proximal leaves and nearly isodiametric distal laminal cells help separate <i>Scopelophila ligulata</i> from <i>Tortula</i>. Leaf blackening, possibly associated with iron in the soil, also occurs in the common species <i>Barbula unguiculata</i>, which, however, has lanceolate leaves. Two variants are weakly distinguishable, a “hydric” form with a loosely pulvinate habit and flaccid, spreading leaves with the distal laminal cells thin-walled and the enlarged basal cells often extending beyond mid leaf, and a “montane” form with a densely pulvinate habit and narrow, firm, appressed leaves with the distal laminal cells mostly thick-walled and the enlarged basal cells mostly confined to the proximal third of the leaf (R. H. Zander 1967).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=shaw1988a
|text=Shaw, A. J. and L. E. Anderson. 1988. Factors affecting the distribution and abundance of the “copper moss,” Scopelophila ligulata, in North America. Lindbergia 14: 55–58.
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name=Scopelophila ligulata
|author=
|authority=(Spruce) Spruce
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Merceya ligulata
|basionyms=Encalypta ligulata
|family=Pottiaceae
|habitat=Soil and rock, cliffs and road cuts
|elevation=moderate to high elevations (300-1900 m)
|distribution=Ariz.;Ark.;Calif.;Ga.;Ill.;La.;Mich.;N.C.;Tenn.;Va.;Mexico;Central America;w South America;Europe;Asia;Africa.
|reference=shaw1988a
|publication title=J. Bot.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Pottiaceae subfam. Merceyoideae
|genus=Scopelophila
|species=Scopelophila ligulata
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