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|accepted_name=Splachnum luteum
|accepted_authority=Hedwig
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Musc. Frond.,
|place=56. 1801
|year=1801
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Splachnaceae;Splachnum;Splachnum luteum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Splachnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Splachnum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Splachnum luteum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 27
|treatment_page=page 25
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>light green or yellow-green. <b>Stems</b> 1.5–3.5 cm. <b>Leaves</b> somewhat crowded at stem apices, oblong-obovate, 5–6 mm; margins bluntly serrate to subentire distally, indistinctly bordered; apex slender-acuminate; costa disappearing in acumen somewhat before apex. <b>Seta</b> greenish yellow to orange-red, 2–15.5 cm, slightly twisted. <b>Capsule</b> urn orange-brown, 1–1.5 mm; hypophysis bright yellow, discoid-umbrelliform, much wider than urn, smooth; operculum hemispheric, blunt; exostome teeth inserted below mouth, approximate in pairs, orange-brown. <b>Spores</b> subspheric, 7–9 µm, yellow-green.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature spring–summer.
|habitat=Dung of large boreal herbivores (such as moose), muskeg, boggy habitats
|elevation=low to high elevations
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.);N.W.T.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Alaska;n Europe;Asia.
|discussion=<p>The bright yellow hypophysis on long seta of <i>Splachnum luteum</i> gives this moss the appearance of a flower. The hypophysis is discoid-umbrelliform, unlike the more convex-umbrelliform hypophysis of <i>S. rubrum</i>, and 4.5–11 mm wide. Immature sporophytes look much like the mature sporophytes of <i>S. sphaericum</i> or immature sporophytes of other North American species of <i>Splachnum</i>. The oblong-obovate leaves with bluntly serrate margins that narrow abruptly to a slender acumen, however, help distinguish <i>S. luteum</i>. <i>Splachnum luteum</i> is generally rare although locally common in central Alaska; the plants are often found growing on the same patches of dung with <i>S. sphaericum</i> and sometimes <i>S. rubrum</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Splachnum luteum
|authority=Hedwig
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Splachnaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature spring–summer.
|habitat=Dung of large boreal herbivores (such as moose), muskeg, boggy habitats
|elevation=low to high elevations
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.);N.W.T.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Alaska;n Europe;Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Musc. Frond.,
|publication year=1801
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Splachnum
|species=Splachnum luteum
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