View source for Cirriphyllum piliferum

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|accepted_name=Cirriphyllum piliferum
|accepted_authority=(Hedwig) Grout
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=25: 225. 1898
|year=1898
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Hypnum piliferum
|authority=Hedwig
|publication_title=Sp. Musc. Frond.,
|publication_place=275. 1801
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brachytheciaceae;Cirriphyllum;Cirriphyllum piliferum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brachytheciaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cirriphyllum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cirriphyllum piliferum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 420
|treatment_page=page 433
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>soft, glossy. <b>Stems</b> to 10 cm, branches to 15 mm, straight. <b>Stem</b> leaves 1.8–2.6 × 1–1.5 mm; base slightly rounded to insertion; margins recurved proximally, plane distally; alar region triangular, abruptly delimited, reaching from margin 50% distance to costa; laminal cells 50–110 × 6–10 µm, walls sometimes strongly porose in proximal part of leaf. <b>Branch</b> leaves to 2 × 0.7 mm. <b>Seta</b> 1–3 cm. <b>Capsule</b> 2–2.5 mm.</span><!--

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|habitat=Soil, humus, duff, decaying wood, limestone, mesic to wet forests, ravine slopes, tall herb vegetation
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (0-500 m)
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Ont.;Alaska;Conn.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Wis.;Europe;Asia;n Africa.
|discussion=<p><i>Cirriphyllum piliferum</i> is easy to recognize by its rather large size, usually pure green and somewhat whitish color, and regular pinnate branching. The concave-inflated and closely imbricate distal leaves are abruptly contracted into filiform acumens, resulting in a peculiar appearance when they stand at a sharp, broad angle from the upper shoot (when wet, as usually occurs in the field). When a shoot is examined against a dark background, the acumens are usually easily visible, allowing for ready field identification. <i>Brachythecium</i> (<i>Cirriphyllum</i>) cirrosum differs from <i>C. piliferum</i> by its more abruptly contracted, so more strongly piliferous, leaves, and branch leaves that do not much differ from stem leaves (in <i>C. piliferum</i>, the branch leaves are not or at least less strongly piliferous); the irregular branching (fairly regular in <i>C. piliferum</i>); the usual yellow color of the plants (usually green in <i>C. piliferum</i>); and rather small alar cells (enlarged in <i>C. piliferum</i>).</p>
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name=Cirriphyllum piliferum
|author=
|authority=(Hedwig) Grout
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Hypnum piliferum
|family=Brachytheciaceae
|habitat=Soil, humus, duff, decaying wood, limestone, mesic to wet forests, ravine slopes, tall herb vegetation
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (0-500 m)
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Ont.;Alaska;Conn.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Wis.;Europe;Asia;n Africa.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1898
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V28/V28_673.xml
|genus=Cirriphyllum
|species=Cirriphyllum piliferum
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