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|accepted_name=Mnium spinulosum
|accepted_authority=Bruch & Schimper
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bryol. Europ.
|place=4: 206, plate 394. 1846
|year=1846
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Mniaceae;Mnium;Mnium spinulosum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Mniaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mnium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Mnium spinulosum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 224
|treatment_page=page 228
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>0.5–1(–2.5) cm. <b>Stems</b> red or reddish brown. <b>Leaves</b> green to dark green, slightly contorted or undulate when dry, obovate or occasionally elliptic, 2.5–5 mm; base long-decurrent; margins reddish brown, multistratose with stereid band, toothed distally, teeth paired, long, sharp; apex acute, obtuse, or rounded-acute, cuspidate, cusp toothed; costa percurrent or excurrent, distal abaxial surface smooth, sometimes with few small teeth; medial laminal cells ± isodiametric or short-elongate, 25–40 µm, smaller towards margins, not in rows, not collenchymatous, blue postmortal color absent; marginal cells linear, in (3–)4–5 rows. <b>Sexual</b> condition synoicous. <b>Seta</b> single or multiple. <b>Capsule</b> pale yellow, 1.5–4 mm; operculum rostrate; exostome dark reddish brown, often purplish. <b>Spores</b> 16–24 µm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature late spring.
|habitat=Forests, on humus, logs, rock, base of trees
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Ariz.;Calif.;Conn.;Ga.;Idaho;Ill.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;N.H.;N.Y.;Oreg.;R.I.;S.Dak.;Vt.;Wash.;Wis.;Europe;Asia.
|discussion=<p><i>Mnium spinulosum</i> is distinguished by usually obovate leaves with broad, thick, and pigmented margins, and dark reddish brown exostomes. The capsule mouths are dark reddish brown; H. A. Crum and L. E. Anderson (1981) referred to this species as the red-mouthed mnium.</p>
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name=Mnium spinulosum
|authority=Bruch & Schimper
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Mniaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature late spring.
|habitat=Forests, on humus, logs, rock, base of trees
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Ariz.;Calif.;Conn.;Ga.;Idaho;Ill.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;N.H.;N.Y.;Oreg.;R.I.;S.Dak.;Vt.;Wash.;Wis.;Europe;Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bryol. Europ.
|publication year=1846
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V28/V28_362.xml
|genus=Mnium
|species=Mnium spinulosum
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