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|accepted_name=Mnium blyttii
|accepted_authority=Bruch & Schimper
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bryol. Europ.
|place=4: 208, plate 400. 1846
|year=1846
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Mniaceae;Mnium;Mnium blyttii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Mniaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mnium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Mnium blyttii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 223
|treatment_page=page 225
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>(1–)2–5(–7) cm. <b>Stems</b> dark reddish brown. <b>Leaves</b> green to dark green, undulate or contorted and often somewhat twisted when dry, broadly ovate, elliptic, or ovate-elliptic, sometimes narrow, (2–)2.5–3.5(–4) mm; base short- to long-decurrent; margins sometimes reddish brown or brownish with age, 1-stratose or rarely 2-stratose in short sections, entire or weakly toothed distally, rarely to below mid leaf, teeth single or rarely paired, small, blunt, sometimes reduced to small extensions of distal cell ends; apex rounded-acute, acute, or obtuse, apiculate or sometimes cuspidate, cusp weakly toothed; costa subpercurrent, percurrent, or sometimes ending well before apex, distal abaxial surface smooth; medial laminal cells short-elongate or sometimes ± isodiametric and irregularly angular, (17–)20–35(–40) µm, slightly smaller towards margins, not in diagonal rows, sometimes in weakly defined longitudinal rows, weakly or not collenchymatous, blue postmortal color present in cells; marginal cells linear, in 1–2(–3) rows. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous. <b>Seta</b> single. <b>Capsule</b> yellow-brown, 3–5 mm; operculum conic-mammillate; exostome greenish yellow. <b>Spores</b> 17–22 µm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature summer.
|habitat=Moist soil, humus, rock, shaded cliffs
|elevation=low to high elevations
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;N.Mex.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Europe;Asia.
|discussion=<p>Collections of <i>Mnium blyttii</i> with weakly toothed or entire leaves are fairly common and can superficially be mistaken for <i>Cinclidium</i> or <i>Rhizomnium</i>. However, even though many leaves appear entire, some leaves will have small forward-pointing bumps at the distal ends of a few marginal cells. The border of linear cells, although not as distinct as with most species of <i>Mnium</i>, and the larger plant and leaf size readily separate well-developed specimens of <i>M. blyttii</i> from <i>M. stellare</i>, the only other species of <i>Mnium</i> that can produce a postmortal color in its laminal cells.</p>
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name=Mnium blyttii
|authority=Bruch & Schimper
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Mniaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature summer.
|habitat=Moist soil, humus, rock, shaded cliffs
|elevation=low to high elevations
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;N.Mex.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Europe;Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bryol. Europ.
|publication year=1846
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V28/V28_357.xml
|genus=Mnium
|species=Mnium blyttii
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