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|accepted_name=Tortula truncata
|accepted_authority=(Hedwig) Mitten in F. D. Godman
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in F. D. Godman, Nat. Hist. Azores,
|place=297. 1870,
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Gymnostomum truncatum
|authority=Hedwig
|publication_title=Sp. Musc. Frond.,
|publication_place=30. 1801
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Pottia truncata
|authority=(Hedwig) Bruch & Schimper
}}
|hierarchy=Pottiaceae;Pottiaceae subfam. Pottioideae;Tortula;Tortula truncata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pottiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Pottiaceae subfam. Pottioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tortula]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Tortula truncata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 588, 589
|treatment_page=page 598
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Leaves </b>obovate to spatulate, apex broadly acute or occasionally rounded, short-awned, margins plane or rarely weakly recurved proximally, weakly bordered distally with 2–4 rows of slightly thicker-walled cells; costa excurrent, lacking an adaxial pad of cells, distally narrow, 2 cells across the convex or plane adaxial surface; distal laminal cells irregularly hexagonal, width 18–22(–27) µm wide, 1:1, smooth. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous. <b>Sporophytes</b> exerted. <b>Seta</b> 0.25–0.4(–0.6) cm. <b>Capsule</b> stegocarpic, not systylius, urceolate or obovate, erect and nearly straight, urn 0.6–1 mm; peristome absent; operculum 0.3–0.5 mm. <b>Spores</b> 25–30 µm, spheric, densely papillose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature fall–spring.
|habitat=Soil, calcareous soil with grasses, fields, lawns, roadsides
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=B.C.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Conn.;Ill.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.J.;N.Y.;Pa.;R.I.;Vt.;Wash.;Wis.;s South America;Europe;Asia;n Africa;Atlantic Islands;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia.
|discussion=<p>Both <i>Tortula truncata</i> and <i>T. modica</i> may have distinct denticulations near the leaf apex or nearly throughout, and this can be more pronounced in the latter, which usually has papillose laminae.</p>
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name=Tortula truncata
|author=
|authority=(Hedwig) Mitten in F. D. Godman
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Pottia truncata
|basionyms=Gymnostomum truncatum
|family=Pottiaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature fall–spring.
|habitat=Soil, calcareous soil with grasses, fields, lawns, roadsides
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=B.C.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Conn.;Ill.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.J.;N.Y.;Pa.;R.I.;Vt.;Wash.;Wis.;s South America;Europe;Asia;n Africa;Atlantic Islands;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=in F. D. Godman, Nat. Hist. Azores,
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V27/V27_855.xml
|subfamily=Pottiaceae subfam. Pottioideae
|genus=Tortula
|species=Tortula truncata
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