View source for Dicranum groenlandicum

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|accepted_name=Dicranum groenlandicum
|accepted_authority=Bridel
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Muscol. Recent., suppl.
|place=4: 68. 1818,
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Dicranaceae;Dicranum;Dicranum groenlandicum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Dicranaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Dicranum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Dicranum groenlandicum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 399, 400
|treatment_page=page 416
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>in dense tufts, light green, glossy. <b>Stems</b> 4.5–10 cm, tomen-tose throughout with brown to red rhizoids. <b>Leaves</b> erect-spreading, erect-appressed when dry, smooth, (2.5–)3–4(–6.5) × 0.3–0.5 mm, from an ovate-lanceolate base to a tubulose subula, narrowly obtuse at apex, rarely acute, sometimes apical leaves of stems julaceous; margins entire; laminae 1-stratose, occasional 2-stratose regions near costa in proximal part of leaf; costa subpercurrent to percurrent, 1/10–1/6 the width of the leaves at base, smooth, abaxial ridges absent, with a row of guide cells, two well developed and thick stereid bands (5–6 cells thick), adaxial epidermal layer of cells not differentiated, the abaxial layer usually with a few cells enlarged; cell walls between lamina cells slightly bulging; leaf cells smooth; alar cells 1- or 2-stratose, well-differentiated, not extending to costa; proximal laminal cells elongate-sinuose, strongly pitted, (36–)54–65(–98) × (2–)5–6(–9) µm; distal laminal cells (11–)17–26(–42) × (2–)5–6(–12) µm. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous; male plants as large as females; interior perichaetial leaves abruptly short-acuminate, convolute-sheathing. <b>Seta</b> 1.5–2 cm, solitary, yellow to reddish yellow. <b>Capsule</b> 1.5–2 mm, nearly straight and erect to slightly arcuate, ± striate when dry, yellowish brown; operculum 1–1.7 mm. <b>Spores</b> 14–19 µm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature in summer.
|habitat=Arctic or alpine tundra, soil, humus or rocks, sometimes in bogs and fens
|elevation=10-3800 m
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;N.Y.;Europe;Asia.
|discussion=<p><i>Dicranum groenlandicum</i> is sometimes not very distinct, often being difficult to separate from its nearest relative, 19. <i>D. elongatum</i>. For distinctions see the discussion under that species.</p>
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name=Dicranum groenlandicum
|authority=Bridel
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Dicranaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature in summer.
|habitat=Arctic or alpine tundra, soil, humus or rocks, sometimes in bogs and fens
|elevation=10-3800 m
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;N.Y.;Europe;Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Muscol. Recent., suppl.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Dicranum
|species=Dicranum groenlandicum
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