View source for Ptychostomum wrightii

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|accepted_name=Ptychostomum wrightii
|accepted_authority=(Sullivant) J. R. Spence
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=87: 22. 2005
|year=2005
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Bryum wrightii
|authority=Sullivant
|rank=species
|publication_title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication_place=4: 278. 1859
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Bryaceae;Ptychostomum;Ptychostomum subg. Ptychostomum;Ptychostomum wrightii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Bryaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ptychostomum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Ptychostomum subg. Ptychostomum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Ptychostomum wrightii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 167
|treatment_page=page 175
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>in dense or open turfs, red-green or red-brown. <b>Stems</b> 0.5–1(–2) cm, fertile stems comose, innovations evenly foliate. <b>Leaves</b> yellow-green to red-green, distant proximally, crowded distally, somewhat contorted to shrunken when dry, ovate, concave, 0.5–2 mm, not enlarged toward stem apex; base green, not decurrent; margins revolute proximally, limbidium strong, in 2 or 3 rows; apex acute; costa percurrent to short-excurrent, awn absent; proximal laminal cells long-rectangular, 3–5:1; medial and distal cells 18–25 µm wide, 2–3:1, walls thin. <b>Specialized</b> asexual reproduction absent. <b>Sexual</b> condition synoicous. <b>Seta</b> red-brown, 1–3 cm, slender, straight to somewhat flexuose. <b>Capsule</b> yellow-red, red, or red-brown, often shiny, broadly ovate to pyriform, symmetric, 2–3 mm, mouth yellow-red; operculum short-conic, smooth or weakly apiculate; peristome reduced; exostome teeth yellow proximally, hyaline distally, lamellae somewhat curved proximally, pores absent; endostome not or weakly adherent to exostome, basal membrane low to rudimentary, segments very short, cilia absent. <b>Spores</b> 18–20(–22) µm, yellow.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Damp calcareous soil, silt, tundra
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (0-1500 m)
|distribution=Greenland;Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.);N.W.T.;Nunavut;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p><i>Ptychostomum wrightii</i> is a small arctic species with distinctive capsules that are somewhat inflated, shiny red, and ovate to pyriform, and a poorly developed fragile endostome. The stems are sparsely radiculose; the costal awns are smooth. Capsules are needed for identification.</p>
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name=Ptychostomum wrightii
|authority=(Sullivant) J. R. Spence
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Bryum wrightii
|family=Bryaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Damp calcareous soil, silt, tundra
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (0-1500 m)
|distribution=Greenland;Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.);N.W.T.;Nunavut;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=2005
|special status=
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|genus=Ptychostomum
|subgenus=Ptychostomum subg. Ptychostomum
|species=Ptychostomum wrightii
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