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|accepted_name=Tortula modica
|accepted_authority=R. H. Zander
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci.
|place=32: 226. 1993,
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Gymnostomum intermedium
|authority=Turner
|rank=species
|publication_title=Muscol. Hibern. Spic.,
|publication_place=7, plate 1, figs. a–c. 1801,
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Pottia intermedia
|authority=(Turner) Fürnrohr
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Pottia truncata var. major
|authority=(F. Weber & D. Mohr) Bruch & Schimper
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Pottiaceae;Pottiaceae subfam. Pottioideae;Tortula;Tortula modica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pottiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Pottiaceae subfam. Pottioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tortula]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Tortula modica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 588, 589
|treatment_page=page 598
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Leaves </b>obovate to spatulate, apex broadly acute or occasionally rounded, short-awned, margins weakly recurved proximally or occasionally plane, weakly bordered distally with 2–4 rows of slightly thicker-walled cells; costa excurrent, lacking an adaxial pad of cells, distally narrow, 2–3 cells across the convex adaxial surface; distal laminal cells irregularly hexagonal or sometimes rectangular, width 20–25(–29) µm wide, 1(–2):1, smooth or 1-papillose (best seen in section). <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous. <b>Sporophytes</b> exerted. <b>Seta</b> 0.4–0.6 cm. <b>Capsule</b> stegocarpic, not systylius, short-cylindric, erect and nearly straight, urn 1–1.5 mm; peristome absent or rudimentary; operculum ca. 0.5 mm. <b>Spores</b> 30–35 µm, spheric, densely papillose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature fall–spring.
|habitat=Calcareous soil, old fields, pastures, rocky areas
|elevation=low and moderate elevations
|distribution=Ont.;N.Y.;Pa.;Europe;Asia;n Africa.
|discussion=<p>A report of <i>Tortula modica</i> from Mexico was excluded by R. H. Zander (1993). The distribution and characters of this uncommon species were discussed by H. A. Crum and L. E. Anderson (1981), P. M. Eckel (1987), and C. Williams (1966b). Essentially, <i>Tortula modica</i> is a high polyploid (n = 52) taxon distinguished from <i>T. truncata</i> by the larger habit, leaf margins usually recurved proximally, capsules slightly longer, short-cylindric, not tapering to the base, and peristome sometimes present though rudimentary.</p>
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name=Tortula modica
|authority=R. H. Zander
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Pottia intermedia;Pottia truncata var. major
|basionyms=Gymnostomum intermedium
|family=Pottiaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature fall–spring.
|habitat=Calcareous soil, old fields, pastures, rocky areas
|elevation=low and moderate elevations
|distribution=Ont.;N.Y.;Pa.;Europe;Asia;n Africa.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Pottiaceae subfam. Pottioideae
|genus=Tortula
|species=Tortula modica
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