View source for Sphagnum pacificum

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|accepted_name=Sphagnum pacificum
|accepted_authority=Flatberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bryologist
|place=92: 116, figs. 1–20. 1989,
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Sphagnaceae;Sphagnum;Sphagnum sect. Cuspidata;Sphagnum pacificum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Sphagnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sphagnum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Sphagnum sect. Cuspidata]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sphagnum pacificum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 63, 64, 66, 68, 73, 81
|treatment_page=page 74
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>moderate-sized and fairly strong-stemmed; green, yellow to yellowish brown; capitulum 5radiate in shade forms to hemispherical in open grown or drier growing forms. <b>Stems</b> pale green to pale brown, sometimes with red branch bases; superficial cortex of 2 layers of enlarged, clearly differentiated and thin-walled cells. <b>Stem</b> leaves triangular to lingulate-triangular, 0.8–1.3 mm; typically appressed; apex acute to apiculate; hyaline cells efibrillose and nonseptate to rarely septate. <b>Branches</b> straight and somewhat tapered, usually 5-ranked; leaves little elongate at the distal branch end. <b>Branch</b> fascicles with 2 spreading and 2–3 pendent branches. <b>Branch</b> stems green but often reddish at proximal end, with cortex enlarged with conspicuous retort cells. <b>Branch</b> leaves ovate to narrowly ovate-lanceolate; (1.1–)1.4–1.8(–3.1) mm; slightly undulate and sharply recurved when dry, somewhat subsecund; margins entire; hyaline cells on convex surface with usually 1 round pore on apical end, on concave surface with wall thinnings in the cell ends and angles; chlorophyllous cells broadly triangular in transverse section and very deeply enclosed on the concave surface. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous. <b>Spores</b> 19–25 µm; finely papillose on both surfaces.</span><!--

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|habitat=Forested and open poor fen habitats, often as a ruderal species in extensive mats
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=B.C.;Alaska;Oreg.;Wash.
|discussion=<p>Sporophytes in <i>Sphagnum pacificum</i> are uncommon. See discussion under 26. <i>S. brevifolium</i>. Characters of the spores are taken from Flatberg’s description.</p>
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|authority=Flatberg
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|family=Sphagnaceae
|habitat=Forested and open poor fen habitats, often as a ruderal species in extensive mats
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=B.C.;Alaska;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bryologist
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|genus=Sphagnum
|section=Sphagnum sect. Cuspidata
|species=Sphagnum pacificum
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