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|accepted_name=Bruchia flexuosa
|accepted_authority=(Schwägrichen) Müller Hal.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Zeitung (Berlin)
|place=5: 99. 1847,
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Phascum flexuosum
|authority=Schwägrichen
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Musc. Frond. Suppl.
|publication_place=2(1,1): 101. 1823
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Bruchia brevicollis
|authority=Lesquereux & James
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Bruchia donnellii
|authority=Austin
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Bruchia sullivantii
|authority=Austin
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Bruchiaceae;Bruchia;Bruchia flexuosa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Bruchiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Bruchia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Bruchia flexuosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 434
|treatment_page=page 436
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Distal </b>leaves long-subulate beyond an ovate, obovate, or elliptic base, 0.9–3.1 mm, leaf base usually strongly differentiated in shape; distal laminal cells short- to long-rectangular. <b>Sexual</b> condition paroicous. <b>Seta</b> 0.5–3 mm. <b>Capsule</b> neck short, obovate. <b>Spores</b> spinose or occasionally spinose-reticulate. <b>Calyptra</b> smooth.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature spring–summer.
|habitat=Most soil, fields, among grasses
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Minn.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;Europe.
|discussion=<p>As discussed in detail by A. E. Rushing (1986), <i>Bruchia flexuosa</i> is the most widely distributed and most morphologically variable species of the genus.</p>
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name=Bruchia flexuosa
|authority=(Schwägrichen) Müller Hal.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Bruchia brevicollis;Bruchia donnellii;Bruchia sullivantii
|basionyms=Phascum flexuosum
|family=Bruchiaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature spring–summer.
|habitat=Most soil, fields, among grasses
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Minn.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;Europe.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Zeitung (Berlin)
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Bruchia
|species=Bruchia flexuosa
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