View source for Homalothecium californicum

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|accepted_name=Homalothecium californicum
|accepted_authority=Hedenas
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bryologist
|place=112: 595, fig. 2. 2009
|year=2009
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brachytheciaceae;Homalothecium;Homalothecium californicum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brachytheciaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Homalothecium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Homalothecium californicum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 440, 444, 446
|treatment_page=page 445
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>large, in moderately dense tufts, green, occasionally brownish with age. <b>Stems</b> to 15 cm, regularly pinnate, branches to 10 mm, circinate when dry. <b>Stem</b> leaves erect when dry, ovate-lanceolate, 2–2.8 × 0.8–1.2 mm; base slightly narrowed, narrowly decurrent; margins plane or recurved, serrulate or entire; apex acuminate; costa to 70–90% leaf length, terminal spine absent; alar cells ovate, 6–9 µm wide, walls thick, region of 15–25 × 15–25 cells, distinctly delimited, opaque to moderately translucent; laminal cells elongate, 30–65(–80) × 4–8 µm; basal cells irregularly long-ovate, region in 2–5 rows, indistinctly delimited from distal cells. <b>Branch</b> leaves erect-appressed when dry, erectopatent when moist, ovate-lanceolate or triangular-lanceolate, 1.8–2.5 × 0.7–0.9 mm; margins recurved almost throughout, serrulate to entire; apex gradually tapered or broadly acuminate; costa to 70–100% leaf length, terminal spine absent; alar cells ovate, 6–9 µm wide, region of 10–15 × 10–18 cells, distinctly delimited; laminal cells elongate, 30–60 × 4–7 µm; basal cells in 1–3 rows; distal cells smooth. <b>Sexual</b> condition phyllodioicous. <b>Seta</b> 1.1–1.7 cm, rough. <b>Capsule</b> erect or nearly so, cylindric, straight, 3–4 mm; annulus unknown; operculum unknown; peristome xerocastique; exostome teeth striolate proximally, papillose distally; endostome basal membrane high, segments as long as exostome teeth, narrow, cilia short, less than 1/4 segment length. <b>Spores</b> 16–21 µm.</span><!--

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|habitat=Rock, limestone, granite, basalt, serpentine, soil, litter in conifer and broad-leaved deciduous forests, mesic conditions
|elevation=moderate to high elevations (400-1600 m)
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p><i>Homalothecium californicum</i> was described only recently, although its distribution is well documented by specimens from 14 counties in California. The plants are rather robust, although smaller than <i>H. megaptilum</i>, usually green, but not very pale yellowish to whitish as is the latter. Gradually acute branch leaves provide a certain similarity to <i>H. nevadense</i>, which sometimes also has a frondose appearance and erect capsules; <i>H. nevadense</i> differs primarily in smaller size and fewer stem leaf alar cells, regions of 5–10 × 6–10 cells versus 15–25 × 15–25 in <i>H. californicum</i>. The sporophytes are infrequent.</p>
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name=Homalothecium californicum
|author=
|authority=Hedenas
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brachytheciaceae
|habitat=Rock, limestone, granite, basalt, serpentine, soil, litter in conifer and broad-leaved deciduous forests, mesic conditions
|elevation=moderate to high elevations (400-1600 m)
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bryologist
|publication year=2009
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Homalothecium
|species=Homalothecium californicum
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