View source for Tortula amplexa

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|accepted_name=Tortula amplexa
|accepted_authority=(Lesquereux) Steere in A. J. Grout
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. J. Grout, Moss Fl. N. Amer.
|place=1: 233. 1939,
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Barbula amplexa
|authority=Lesquereux
|rank=species
|publication_title=Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s.
|publication_place=13: 5. 1865
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Syntrichia amplexa
|authority=(Lesquereux) R. H. Zander
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Pottiaceae;Pottiaceae subfam. Pottioideae;Tortula;Tortula amplexa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pottiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Pottiaceae subfam. Pottioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tortula]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Tortula amplexa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 587, 588, 590, 603
|treatment_page=page 602
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Leaves </b>ovate to elliptic, occasionally lingulate, apex rounded and muticuous, margins weakly recurved in proximal 1/2 of leaf, weakly bordered in distal 2/3 of leaf with 2–6 rows of thicker-walled, smaller cells (sometimes weak or patchy); costa percurrent or ending 2–6 cells before the apex, lacking an adaxial pad of cells, distally narrow, 2(–3) cells across adaxial surface; distal laminal cells hexagonal, width 13–18(–25) µm, 1:1, weakly papillose. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous. <b>Sporophytes</b> exerted. <b>Seta</b> 0.5–1(–1.5) cm. <b>Capsule</b> stegocarpic, not systylius, cylindric, erect and nearly straight, urn 1.5–2 mm; peristome of 32 twisted filaments, basal membrane low; operculum 1–1.5 mm. <b>Spores</b> 9–13 µm, spheric, essentially smooth.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature late summer.
|habitat=Soil, stones, near springs, dry washes, lowlands
|elevation=low elevations
|distribution=B.C.;Man.;Ariz.;Calif.;Wash.;Europe (United Kingdom).
|discussion=<p><i>Tortula amplexa</i> is similar to <i>T. inermis</i> but the latter is autoicous and lacks the leaf border. The lax areolation, sheathing perichaetial leaves, and weak development of the laminal papillae distinguish it from the similar <i>T. bolanderi</i>. This species is thought to spread by rhizoidal propagula through inadvertent human agency (A. G. Side and H. L. K. Whitehouse 1974).</p>
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name=Tortula amplexa
|authority=(Lesquereux) Steere in A. J. Grout
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Syntrichia amplexa
|basionyms=Barbula amplexa
|family=Pottiaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature late summer.
|habitat=Soil, stones, near springs, dry washes, lowlands
|elevation=low elevations
|distribution=B.C.;Man.;Ariz.;Calif.;Wash.;Europe (United Kingdom).
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. J. Grout, Moss Fl. N. Amer.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Pottiaceae subfam. Pottioideae
|genus=Tortula
|species=Tortula amplexa
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