View source for Pohlia vexans

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|accepted_name=Pohlia vexans
|accepted_authority=(Limpricht) H. Lindberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Acta Soc. Fauna Fl. Fenn.
|place=16(5): 20. 1899
|year=1899
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Mniobryum vexans
|authority=Limpricht
|rank=species
|publication_title=Laubm. Deutschl.
|publication_place=2: 273. 1892
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Mielichhoferiaceae;Pohlia;Pohlia vexans
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Mielichhoferiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pohlia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Pohlia vexans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 196, 209
|treatment_page=page 212
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small, green to reddish, very glossy. <b>Stems</b> 0.5–1.5 cm, cherry red. <b>Leaves</b> stiffly erect and ± imbricate to erect-spreading, lanceolate, 0.6–1.3 mm; base not or scarcely decurrent; margins weakly serrulate in distal 1/3; costa ending well before apex; distal medial laminal cells broadly rhomboidal, 65–110 µm, walls thin. <b>Specialized</b> asexual reproduction absent. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous; perigonial leaves to 3 mm; perichaetial leaves somewhat differentiated, lanceolate. <b>Seta</b> orange-brown. <b>Capsule</b> inclined ± 180°, brown to red-brown, sometimes stramineous, short-pyriform to urceolate, neck less than 1/3 urn length; exothecial cells isodiametric, walls sinuate; stomata immersed; annulus absent; operculum short- to long-conic; exostome teeth yellow to light brown, triangular-acute; endostome yellow to yellow-brown, basal membrane 1/2 exostome length or slightly longer, segments tapered apically, distinctly keeled, broadly perforate, cilia long, nodulose. <b>Spores</b> 15–21 µm, finely roughened.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature spring (Apr–Jun).
|habitat=Disturbed clay or rarely sandy soil, path banks, along streams
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.W.T.;Alaska;Mont.;Wash.;Europe.
|discussion=<p><i>Pohlia vexans</i> is a slender species characterized by abundant, elongate sterile shoots with erect, rather glossy leaves. The exostome teeth are pale brown. The species is common on moist calcareous clays in cold continental regions of northwestern North America.</p>
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name=Pohlia vexans
|authority=(Limpricht) H. Lindberg
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Mniobryum vexans
|family=Mielichhoferiaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature spring (Apr–Jun).
|habitat=Disturbed clay or rarely sandy soil, path banks, along streams
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.W.T.;Alaska;Mont.;Wash.;Europe.
|reference=None
|publication title=Acta Soc. Fauna Fl. Fenn.
|publication year=1899
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V28/V28_340.xml
|genus=Pohlia
|species=Pohlia vexans
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