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|accepted_name=Sphagnum flavicomans
|accepted_authority=(Cardot) Warnstorf in H. G. A. Engler
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in H. G. A. Engler, Pflanzenr.
|place=51[III]: 79. 1911,
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Sphagnum acutifolium var. flavicomans
|authority=Cardot
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Rev. Bryol.
|publication_place=11: 55. 1884
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sphagnum plumulosum var. flavicomans
|authority=(Cardot) A. L. Andrews
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sphagnum subnitens var. flavicomans
|authority=(Cardot) Warnstorf
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sphagnum subnitens var. obscurum
|authority=Warnstorf
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sphagnum subnitens var. viride
|authority=Warnstorf
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Sphagnaceae;Sphagnum;Sphagnum sect. Acutifolia;Sphagnum flavicomans
|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. Acutifolia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sphagnum flavicomans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 87, 89, 91, 94, 95, 98
|treatment_page=page 93
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>normally robust, sometimes moderate-sized, stiff and erect, capitulum large and typically hemispherical, usually deep reddish brown, frequently with a faint metallic purplish sheen when dry. <b>Stems</b> dark reddish brown; superficial cortical cells aporose. <b>Stem</b> leaves narrowly triangular-lingulate, 1.5–2 mm, apex right-angled to apiculate, border moderately strong and greatly broadened at the base (more than 0.25 width); hyaline cells rhombic, 0–1-septate, normally fibrillose near apex. <b>Branches</b> not 5-ranked, terete, long and tapering. <b>Branch</b> fascicles with 2 spreading and 1–2 pendent branches. <b>Branch</b> leaves ovate-lanceolate, 1.5–2.3 mm, straight, concave, apex strongly involute; margins entire; hyaline cells on convex surface with elliptic pores along the commissures, grading from moderate-sized pores near leaf apex to large pores at leaf base, concave surface with large round pores in proximal marginal regions of leaf. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous. <b>Spores</b> 27–32 µm, finely papillose on both surfaces; proximal laesura less than 0.5 spore radius.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature early to mid summer.
|habitat=Ombrotrophic to weakly minerotrophic and hygrophytic, forming hummocks on margins of ponds and in poor fens where some shade is available and carpets in wet forests along coast
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Pa.;R.I.;Va.
|discussion=<p>The sporophytes of <i>Sphagnum flavicomans</i> are uncommon. It is associated with <i>S. cuspidatum</i>, <i>S. papillosum</i>, <i>S. rubellum</i>, <i>S. pulchrum</i>, and <i>S. torreyanum</i>. This species is the ecological replacement for <i>S. fuscum</i> in much of the Atlantic coastal plain; compared to that species, <i>S. flavicomans</i> is substantially more robust and has a larger stem leaf with a more pointed apex. See also discussion under 83. <i>S. subfulvum</i>.</p>
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name=Sphagnum flavicomans
|authority=(Cardot) Warnstorf in H. G. A. Engler
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Sphagnum plumulosum var. flavicomans;Sphagnum subnitens var. flavicomans;Sphagnum subnitens var. obscurum;Sphagnum subnitens var. viride
|basionyms=Sphagnum acutifolium var. flavicomans
|family=Sphagnaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature early to mid summer.
|habitat=Ombrotrophic to weakly minerotrophic and hygrophytic, forming hummocks on margins of ponds and in poor fens where some shade is available and carpets in wet forests along coast
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Pa.;R.I.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=in H. G. A. Engler, Pflanzenr.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V27/V27_92.xml
|genus=Sphagnum
|section=Sphagnum sect. Acutifolia
|species=Sphagnum flavicomans
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