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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Schistidium confertum
|accepted_authority=(Funck) Bruch & Schimper
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bryol. Europ.
|place=3: 99. 1845,
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Grimmia conferta
|authority=Funck
|rank=species
|publication_title=Deutschl. Moose,
|publication_place=18. 1820
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Grimmiaceae;Grimmiaceae subfam. Grimmioideae;Schistidium;Schistidium confertum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Grimmiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Grimmiaceae subfam. Grimmioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Schistidium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Schistidium confertum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 210, 216, 218
|treatment_page=page 214
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>in compact, often flattish cushions or tufts, olivaceous, brown, or yellow-brown, rarely nearly black. <b>Stems</b> 0.3–1.2(–2) cm, central strand narrow or absent. <b>Leaves</b> erect, sometimes slightly curved, imbricate when dry, ovate-lanceolate to ovate-triangular, obtusely keeled or concave proximally, sharply keeled distally, 0.8–1.8(–2) mm, 1-stratose or 2-stratose in striae distally; margins recurved in medial sections, usually less recurved on one side of leaf, rarely plane, smooth, 2-stratose, occasionally 3-stratose; apices usually acute, rarely sub-obtuse; costa percurrent or excurrent as a short, spinulose-denticulate, often flexuose awn, smooth; basal marginal cells quadrate or short-rectangular, transverse walls usually thicker than longitudinal walls, sometimes trigonous; distal cells mostly isodiametric, rounded or angular, or short-rectangular, 5–8 µm wide, smooth, weakly sinuose. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous. <b>Capsule</b> yellow-brown or light reddish brown, short-cylindric or cupulate, rarely campanulate, rarely becoming finely striate with age, (0.5–)0.7–1 mm; exothecial cells mostly short-elongate, mixed with patches of angular isodiametric cells, walls unevenly thickened, trigonous; stomata present; peristome patent to squarrose, sometimes twisted, 230–320 µm, orange or yellowish red, coarsely papillose, usually strongly perforated and with uneven margins. <b>Spores</b> 8–12 µm, smooth or granulose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature late spring to early summer.
|habitat=Rocks in somewhat shaded habitats
|elevation=moderate to high elevations (1000-3200 m)
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mich.;Nev.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p><i>Schistidium confertum</i> is one of the smaller species of the genus. It can be confused with <i>S. dupretii</i> and <i>S. frigidum</i>. <i>Schistidium dupretii</i> is distinguished by its consistently striate, larger, darker, and more cylindrical capsules and its oblate basal marginal laminal cells versus the quadrate or longitudinally short- rectangular marginal cells of <i>S. confertum</i>. Also, <i>S. dupretii</i> lacks the thicker transverse walls that characterize the basal marginal cells of <i>S. confertum</i>. The leaf margins of <i>S. confertum</i> are more weakly recurved than in <i>S. dupretii</i>, and it is usually olivaceous, often with yellowish or brownish tones, whereas <i>S. dupretii</i> is generally evenly brown.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Schistidium confertum
|authority=(Funck) Bruch & Schimper
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Grimmia conferta
|family=Grimmiaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature late spring to early summer.
|habitat=Rocks in somewhat shaded habitats
|elevation=moderate to high elevations (1000-3200 m)
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mich.;Nev.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bryol. Europ.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V27/V27_287.xml
|subfamily=Grimmiaceae subfam. Grimmioideae
|genus=Schistidium
|species=Schistidium confertum
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