View source for Didymodon maximus

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Didymodon maximus
|accepted_authority=(Syed & Crundwell) M. O. Hill
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Bryol.
|place=11: 599. 1982,
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Barbula maxima
|authority=Syed & Crundwell
|rank=species
|publication_title=J. Bryol.
|publication_place=7: 527. 1974,
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Pottiaceae;Pottiaceae subfam. Barbuloideae;Didymodon;Didymodon maximus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pottiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Pottiaceae subfam. Barbuloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Didymodon]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Didymodon maximus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 541, 557, 560
|treatment_page=page 558
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>green to red-brown. <b>Stems</b> often more than 3 cm, central strand present. <b>Stem</b> leaves appressed when dry, strongly recurved and keeled when moist, monomorphic, ovate-triangular, adaxially grooved along costa, 2–2.5 mm, base scarcely differentiated in shape to ovate, margins nearly plane to recurved at mid leaf, entire, apex broadly acute; costa percurrent to short-excurrent, not fragile, weakly tapering, widened pad of cells absent, adaxial costal cells elongate, 2–3 cells wide at mid leaf, guide cells in 1 layer; basal laminal cells differentiated medially, rectangular, walls thickened and often porose; distal laminal cells 13–15 µm wide, 1:1, papillae usually present, simple, often large, 1–3 centered over lumens, lumens angular, walls irregularly thickened and often trigonous but trigones smaller than lumens, convex on both sides, 1-stratose. <b>Specialized</b> asexual reproduction absent. <b>Sexual</b> condition sterile in range of flora. <b>Sporophytes</b> unknown. <b>Distal</b> laminal KOH reaction dark red.</span><!--

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|habitat=Cliffs, outcrops, canyons, limestone, tundra meadow
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (20-1300 m)
|distribution=Nunavut;Alaska;w Europe.
|discussion=<p><i>Didymodon maximus</i> is rare and apparently disjunctive to the western British Isles (W. C. Steere and G. W. Scotter 1978).</p>
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name=Didymodon maximus
|authority=(Syed & Crundwell) M. O. Hill
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Barbula maxima
|family=Pottiaceae
|habitat=Cliffs, outcrops, canyons, limestone, tundra meadow
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (20-1300 m)
|distribution=Nunavut;Alaska;w Europe.
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Bryol.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Pottiaceae subfam. Barbuloideae
|genus=Didymodon
|species=Didymodon maximus
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