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|accepted_name=Oligotrichum hercynicum
|accepted_authority=(Hedwig) Lamarck & de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Franç. ed.
|place=3, 2: 492. 1805,
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Polytrichum hercynicum
|authority=Hedwig
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Musc. Frond.,
|publication_place=94. 1801
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Oligotrichum incurvum
|authority=(Bridel) Lindberg
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Polytrichaceae;Oligotrichum;Oligotrichum hercynicum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polytrichaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Oligotrichum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Oligotrichum hercynicum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 143, 145
|treatment_page=page 144
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>bright green, somewhat glaucous, becoming reddish brown with age. <b>Stems</b> 1–2.5(–3) cm. <b>Leaves</b> 2.5–5 mm, lanceolate from a weakly sheathing base, broadly incurved and subtubulose when dry, somewhat spreading but remaining incurved and strongly channeled distally when moist; margins entire to finely and distantly serrulate; costa percurrent or shortly excurrent as a short mucro, the adaxial surface with several low continuous or interrupted abaxial lamellae; abaxial surface of lamina smooth or sporadically with scattered short lamellae near the apex of leaf; adaxial lamellae 8–20, 6–13 cells high, restricted to the costa, crispate-undulate, extending to the middle of the leaf or below, the margins finely and irregularly crenulate with bulging marginal cells, smooth; median cells of lamina 15–20 µm, somewhat smaller towards the margins, rounded subquadrate, thick-walled; marginal teeth distant, minute, unicellular; perichaetial leaves 3–3.5 mm, narrowly lanceolate. <b>Seta</b> stout, pale brown, 2–4 cm. <b>Capsule</b> 2–4 mm, cylindric, slightly larger at the base, terete or irregularly angled or ridged; peristome teeth 32, double, somewhat irregular. <b>Spores</b> 10–15 µm.</span><!--

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|habitat=Soil, gravel, and moist peaty embankments, open disturbed sites, roadcuts, beside paths, on lake shores, stream banks, late snow areas, also aquatic in rapidly flowing glacier melt streams
|elevation=moderate to high elevations (500-2200 m)
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Yukon;Alaska;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.;Europe (southward to Spain;Turkey);e Asia (Japan).
|discussion=<p>An arctic-alpine species widespread in northern latitudes, <i>Oligotrichum hercynicum</i> is a pioneer species, typically forming bright green patches on disturbed soil but, like <i>O. falcatum</i>, also in aquatic habitats.</p>
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name=Oligotrichum hercynicum
|authority=(Hedwig) Lamarck & de Candolle
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Oligotrichum incurvum
|basionyms=Polytrichum hercynicum
|family=Polytrichaceae
|habitat=Soil, gravel, and moist peaty embankments, open disturbed sites, roadcuts, beside paths, on lake shores, stream banks, late snow areas, also aquatic in rapidly flowing glacier melt streams
|elevation=moderate to high elevations (500-2200 m)
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Yukon;Alaska;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.;Europe (southward to Spain;Turkey);e Asia (Japan).
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Franç. ed.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V27/V27_178.xml
|genus=Oligotrichum
|species=Oligotrichum hercynicum
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