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|accepted_name=Sphagnum carolinianum
|accepted_authority=R. E. Andrus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bryologist
|place=86: 257, figs. 1983,
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sphagnum subsecundum var. carolinianum
|authority=(R. E. Andrus) H. A. Crum
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Sphagnaceae;Sphagnum;Sphagnum sect. Subsecunda;Sphagnum carolinianum
|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. Subsecunda]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sphagnum carolinianum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 80
|treatment_page=page 79
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>moderate to large, erect to floating, green to dark brown; capitulum large, well defined and flat-topped. <b>Stems</b> typically light green but grading to dark brown; superficial cortex of 2–3 layers of enlarged, thin-walled cells. <b>Stem</b> leaves lingulate to lingulate-triangular, 0.7–1.5 mm (to 3 mm in isophyllous forms), apex erose; hyaline cells mostly 1–septate but in a few cells with 2–3 parallel septations, efibrillose to fibrillose throughout, pores present in hemiisophyllous and isophyllous forms. <b>Branches</b> straight to somewhat curved, with spreading leaves. <b>Branch</b> fascicles with 2 spreading and 2 pendent in emergent forms, these reduced in aquatic forms to 2 per fascicle. <b>Branch</b> leaves variable, broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.3–5 mm; straight, hyaline cells on the convex surface with 4–8 µm round to elliptic pores in nearly continuous rows along the commissures, the concave surface aporose or with some porosity as on the convex surface. <b>Sexual</b> condition unknown. <b>Capsule</b> not seen. <b>Spores</b> not seen.</span><!--

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|habitat=Forming wet often floating carpets in pools in weakly minerotrophic mires
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);Ala.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Maine;Mass.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|discussion=<p>The sporophytes of <i>Sphagnum carolinianum</i> are unknown. In its apparent restriction to the coastal plain, this species is most similar distributionally to such species as <i>S. macrophyllum</i>, <i>S. fitzgeraldii</i>, and <i>S. tenerum</i>. When forming carpets, <i>S. carolinianum</i> macrospically most resembles <i>S. atlanticum</i> but its branch leaves are not as elongate as those of the latter and its stem leaves have a much more obtuse apex. When growing aquatically, S. caroliniaum can resemble <i>S. cribrosum</i>, but in the latter species the hanging branches are not different from the spreading branches and may even be lacking.</p>
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name=Sphagnum carolinianum
|authority=R. E. Andrus
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Sphagnum subsecundum var. carolinianum
|basionyms=
|family=Sphagnaceae
|habitat=Forming wet often floating carpets in pools in weakly minerotrophic mires
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);Ala.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Maine;Mass.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bryologist
|publication year=
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|genus=Sphagnum
|section=Sphagnum sect. Subsecunda
|species=Sphagnum carolinianum
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