View source for Sphagnum portoricense

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|accepted_name=Sphagnum portoricense
|accepted_authority=Hampe
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Linnaea
|place=25: 359. 1852,
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sphagnum sullivantianum
|authority=Austin
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Sphagnaceae;Sphagnum;Sphagnum sect. Sphagnum;Sphagnum portoricense
|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. Sphagnum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sphagnum portoricense]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 37, 48, 80
|treatment_page=page 54
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>moderate-sized to often quite robust, ± weak-stemmed, lax; green, bluish green, green and brown to dark golden brown, often speckled in appearance; found submerged in shallow water, stranded along shore lines in loose carpets. <b>Stems</b> brown, superficial cortical layer with spiral reinforcing fibrils clearly visible, usually many pores per cell (1–6), comb-fibrils on interior wall. <b>Stem</b> leaves 1.1 × 1 mm; rarely hemiisophyllous; hyaline cells non-ornamented, frequently septate. <b>Branches</b> clavate and rounded at distal end. <b>Branch</b> fascicles with 2 spreading and 2 pendent branches. <b>Branch</b> stems with hyaline cell comb-lamellae visible on interior cortex wall, cortical cell end walls with conspicuous funnel projections more than 1/2 length of cell, superficial cortical wall aporose. <b>Branch</b> leaves broadly ovate, 2.4 × 1.7 mm; hyaline cells on convex surface with numerous round pores along the commissures, comb-lamellae on hyaline cell walls where overlying chlorophyllous cells; chlorophyllous cells broadly triangular in transverse section and well-enclosed on the convex surface. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous. <b>Capsule</b> with pseudostomata. <b>Spores</b> 22–29 µm; finely papillose on both surfaces; indistinct triradiate ridge on distal surface; proximal laesura 0.5–0.6 spore radius.</span><!--

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|habitat=Stream channels, shallow ponds, coniferous and hardwood swamps and pocosins
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;La.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Sphagnum portoricense</i> is normally very easily distinguished because of its wet growing habit and strongly clavate branches.</p>
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name=Sphagnum portoricense
|authority=Hampe
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Sphagnum sullivantianum
|basionyms=
|family=Sphagnaceae
|habitat=Stream channels, shallow ponds, coniferous and hardwood swamps and pocosins
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;La.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Linnaea
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Sphagnum
|section=Sphagnum sect. Sphagnum
|species=Sphagnum portoricense
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