View source for Brachythecium turgidum

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|accepted_name=Brachythecium turgidum
|accepted_authority=(Hartman) Kindberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Vidensk. Meddel. Naturhist. Foren. Kjøbenhavn, ser.
|place=4, 9: 294. 1888
|year=1888
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Hypnum salebrosum var. turgidum
|authority=Hartman
|publication_title=Handb. Skand. Fl. ed.
|publication_place=3, 2: 309. 1838
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brachytheciaceae;Brachythecium;Brachythecium turgidum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brachytheciaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Brachythecium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Brachythecium turgidum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 414, 415, 416, 428
|treatment_page=page 427
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>large, rigid, in moderately dense mats, green to often rich golden and brownish yellow. <b>Stems</b> to 12 cm, creeping to ascending or erect in dense growth, terete-foliate, irregularly pinnate, branches to 15 mm, straight to flexuose, terete-foliate. <b>Stem</b> leaves erect-appressed, closely imbricate, ovate-lanceolate, broadest at 1/8–1/4 leaf length, slightly concave, strongly plicate, 2.5–3.5 × 0.9–1.3 mm; base tapered, decurrent; margins plane or often recurved at places, entire to slightly serrulate, especially distally; apex gradually or abruptly tapered, acumen often long and filiform; costa to 60–75% leaf length, moderately strong, terminal spine absent; alar cells subquadrate to short-rectangular, small, 12–20 × 11–15 µm, walls thick, region indistinctly delimited, of 5–10 × 5–8 cells; laminal cells linear, 45–100(–130) × 6–9(–11) µm, walls thick, of similar width as lumina; basal cells 8–13 µm wide, walls thick, porose, region in 3 rows. <b>Branch</b> leaves similar, smaller. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous. <b>Seta</b> reddish, 1–2 cm, smooth. <b>Capsule</b> horizontal, red-brown to dark brown, elongate, curved, 2 mm; annulus separating by fragments; operculum long-conic. <b>Spores</b> 13–17 µm.</span><!--

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|habitat=Soil, rock, exposed mesic to wet habitats
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (0-1300 m)
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Mich.;Mont.;Wyo.;n Eurasia.
|discussion=<p><i>Brachythecium turgidum</i> is an Arctic-alpine species obviously with a higher elevation limit than 1300 m, but many labels lack elevation information. The species can usually be recognized as robust plants with upright growth, strongly plicate leaves, subentire leaf margins, thick-walled laminal cells, and thick-walled and porose basal cells. This species rarely produces sporophytes, and if they are present, the seta is quite short. In wet places in the Arctic, especially near late and permanent snow beds, this species develops shoots with very concave, weakly plicate leaves that are also abruptly acuminate, and the plants look similar to <i>B. cirrosum</i>.</p>
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name=Brachythecium turgidum
|author=
|authority=(Hartman) Kindberg
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Hypnum salebrosum var. turgidum
|family=Brachytheciaceae
|habitat=Soil, rock, exposed mesic to wet habitats
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (0-1300 m)
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Mich.;Mont.;Wyo.;n Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Vidensk. Meddel. Naturhist. Foren. Kjøbenhavn, ser.
|publication year=1888
|special status=
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|genus=Brachythecium
|species=Brachythecium turgidum
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