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|accepted_name=Weissia brachycarpa
|accepted_authority=(Nees & Hornschuch) Juratzka
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Laubm.-Fl. Oesterr.-Ung.,
|place=9. 1882,
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Hymenostomum brachycarpum
|authority=Nees & Hornschuch
|rank=species
|publication_title=in C. G. D. Nees et al., Bryol. Germ.
|publication_place=1: 196, plate 12, fig. 3. 1823
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Hymenostomum microstomum
|authority=(Hedwig) R. Brown
|rank=species
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|name=Hymenostomum microstomum var. brachycarpum
|authority=(Nees & Hornschuch) Huebener
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Pottiaceae;Pottiaceae subfam. Trichostomoideae;Weissia;Weissia brachycarpa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pottiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Pottiaceae subfam. Trichostomoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Weissia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Weissia brachycarpa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 513, 516, 517
|treatment_page=page 515
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Leaves </b>lanceolate to long-lanceolate, base weakly differentiated to elliptic, shoulders weak or absent, distal laminal margins very broadly incurved to erect, apex broadly channeled, acute, mucro usually very strong, of 5–7(–10) cells; costal adaxial stereid band smaller than the abaxial; distal laminal cells 8–12 µm wide. <b>Sexual</b> condition cladautoicous. <b>Seta</b> elongate, (0.2–)0.28–0.4 cm. <b>Capsule</b> stegocarpic, ovoid, often slightly curved or bulging on one side, operculum differentiated, falling, peristome absent.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature spring.
|habitat=Soil, limestone rocks, grassy areas
|elevation=moderate elevations
|distribution=B.C.;N.S.;Ont.;Ind.;Mass.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Tex.;Eurasia;n Africa.
|discussion=<p><i>Weissia brachycarpa</i> is a new name for the illegitimate combination <i>Weissia</i> microstoma (Hedwig) Müller Hal.</p><!--
--><p><i>Weissia brachycarpa</i> is easily distinguishable from related <i>Weissia</i> by the mostly plane (not tightly inrolled) distal leaf margins and usually a rather large mucro, composed of ca. 10 clear cells, but often only of 4–6 cells; other <i>Weissia</i> species have mucros of about six cells. Often the distal margins are sharply incurved (a sharp inflexion seen in section) and although the gametophyte has the appearance otherwise of <i>Trichostomum crispulum</i>, the largely plane (or broadly incurved) distal margins may be taken as a secondary character, perhaps a reduction. <i>Weissia ludoviciana</i>, likewise, has largely plane distal leaf margins, but inflexion may be evident in some specimens. In addition, the very long and narrow leaves of <i>W. brachycarpa</i> and <i>W. ludoviciana</i> are not duplicated in <i>Trichostomum</i> except in the <i>T. tenuirostre</i> complex. <i>Weissia brachycarpa</i> is cladautoicous, with perigonial buds borne in the axils of lower branches of robust fruiting plants. <i>Weissia brachycarpa</i> is related to W. rutilans of the Old World by the nearly identical gametophytes; the latter species differs in the rudimentary peristome teeth, and slightly larger spores. The nomenclature of <i>W. brachycarpa</i> is intricate; see discussions by M. O. Hill (1981) and T. J. Koponen et al. (1977).</p>
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name=Weissia brachycarpa
|authority=(Nees & Hornschuch) Juratzka
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Hymenostomum microstomum;Hymenostomum microstomum var. brachycarpum
|basionyms=Hymenostomum brachycarpum
|family=Pottiaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature spring.
|habitat=Soil, limestone rocks, grassy areas
|elevation=moderate elevations
|distribution=B.C.;N.S.;Ont.;Ind.;Mass.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Tex.;Eurasia;n Africa.
|reference=None
|publication title=Laubm.-Fl. Oesterr.-Ung.,
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V27/V27_740.xml
|subfamily=Pottiaceae subfam. Trichostomoideae
|genus=Weissia
|species=Weissia brachycarpa
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