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|accepted_name=Fontinalis neomexicana
|accepted_authority=Sullivant & Lesquereux in W. S. Sullivant
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in W. S. Sullivant, Musc. Hepat. U.S.,
|place=224b. 1856
|year=1856
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Fontinalis columbica
|authority=Cardot
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|name=F. maritima
|authority=Müller Hal.
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|name=F. mercediana
|authority=Lesquereux
}}
|hierarchy=Fontinalaceae;Fontinalis;Fontinalis neomexicana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Fontinalaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Fontinalis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Fontinalis neomexicana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 494
|treatment_page=page 498
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>to 50 cm, pale green, green, yellowish green, or golden brown. <b>Stems</b> slender to medium, rigid; stem and branch apices stiff, long-attenuate; axillary hairs 300–450 µm, 5–7 cells, basal cell quadrate, red, distal cells long-cylindric, hyaline. <b>Leaves</b> monomorphic, erect-spreading to spreading when dry, erect-spreading in 3 ranks when moist, oblong-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, keeled and conduplicate, 2–4(–5) mm; margins sometimes loosely reflexed when dry, plane when moist; apex acute or occasionally subobtuse; medial laminal cells 120–180 × 4–8 µm. <b>Perigonia</b> with leaves 1.3–1.5 mm. <b>Perichaetia</b> with leaves oval to suborbiculate, 3–3.5 mm, apex abruptly apiculate to cuspidate. <b>Seta</b> 0.2–0.3 mm. <b>Capsule</b> immersed to slightly emergent, ovoid to oblong, 2–2.5 mm; operculum obtuse-conic, 0.6–0.9 mm; endostome trellis perfect. <b>Calyptra</b> 2 mm. <b>Spores</b> 15–25 µm.</span><!--

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|habitat=Rock, boulders, sticks, streams
|elevation=low to high elevations (0-3400 m)
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mich.;Mont.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Fontinalis neomexicana</i> is a slender species with monomorphic, keeled leaves, narrow laminal cells, mostly entire leaf margins, and characteristically apiculate to cuspidate perichaetial leaves. Leaf keels beyond the basal curve vary from nearly straight to moderately curved. <i>Fontinalis neomexicana</i> is often found in shallow, fast moving streams. Wet plants are triangular-imbricate, with firm, long-attenuate, sharply three-angled stem and branch apices; dry plants often have erect-spreading to spreading, distinctly three-ranked leaves with loosely reflexed margins. These features appear accentuated by and are correlated with strong stream currents. In slow moving streams, <i>F. neomexicana</i> has loosely foliate stems and somewhat lax, short-attenuate stem and branch apices.</p><!--
--><p>The imbricate form of <i>Fontinalis neomexicana</i> is similar to <i>F. dalecarlica</i>; both species have attenuate stem and branch apices. They are sometimes confused because dry leaves of <i>F. neomexicana</i> can appear concave rather than keeled. Wet plants of <i>F. neomexicana</i> differ from <i>F. dalecarlica</i> in having keeled leaves and angled, rather than terete, stem and branch apices. Slender forms of <i>F. antipyretica</i> (gracilis expression) closely approach the loosely foliate form of <i>F. neomexicana</i>; however, the former have lax to flaccid stems, weakly keeled (often concave) leaves, broader laminal cells (10–12 versus 4–8 µm wide), short, swollen stem and branch apices, and obtuse perichaetial leaves.</p>
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name=Fontinalis neomexicana
|author=
|authority=Sullivant & Lesquereux in W. S. Sullivant
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Fontinalis columbica;F. maritima;F. mercediana
|basionyms=
|family=Fontinalaceae
|habitat=Rock, boulders, sticks, streams
|elevation=low to high elevations (0-3400 m)
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mich.;Mont.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=in W. S. Sullivant, Musc. Hepat. U.S.,
|publication year=1856
|special status=Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Fontinalis
|species=Fontinalis neomexicana
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