View source for Platydictya minutissima

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|accepted_name=Platydictya minutissima
|accepted_authority=(Sullivant & Lesquereux) H. A. Crum
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bryologist
|place=72: 244. 1969
|year=1969
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Hypnum minutissimum
|authority=Sullivant & Lesquereux
|rank=species
|publication_title=in A. Gray, Manual ed.
|publication_place=2, 678. 1856
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Amblystegiella minutissima
|authority=(Sullivant) Nichols
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Platydictya jungermannioides var. minutissima
|authority=(Sullivant) H. A. Crum
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Amblystegiaceae;Platydictya;Platydictya minutissima
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Amblystegiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Platydictya]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Platydictya minutissima]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 282
|treatment_page=page 284
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>thin, ± silky, green to brownish. <b>Stems</b> with branching angle wide, branches firmly attached; pseudoparaphyllia apparently absent; rhizoids below or at abaxial leaf insertion, red-brown, smooth. <b>Leaves</b> loosely spreading, 0.1–0.3 mm; base not narrowed to insertion; margins entire at insertion, serrulate elsewhere; alar cells scarcely differentiated; distal laminal cells elongate-rhomboidal, 3–6:1. <b>Specialized</b> asexual reproduction absent. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous; perichaetial leaf margins coarsely dentate distally. <b>Seta</b> 0.4–0.9 cm. <b>Capsule</b> inclined, horizontal, or sometimes suberect, broadly oblong-ovoid, asymmetric, 0.4–0.5 mm, not contracted below mouth when dry, neck absent; stomata absent; annulus 1-seriate; operculum convex-conic, stoutly apiculate; exostome teeth yellowish; endostome cilia 1 or 2, well developed. <b>Spores</b> 8–13 µm.</span><!--

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|habitat=Moist, shaded rock (limestone, sandstone)
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=Que.;Ark.;Ind.;Mass.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;Wis.
|discussion=<p><i>Platydictya minutissima</i> is rare and occurs in thin, rather silky mats. The leaves are somewhat remote, loosely spreading when dry, and serrulate except near the insertion; the laminal cells are elongate, and those in the alar regions are scarcely differentiated.</p>
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name=Platydictya minutissima
|authority=(Sullivant & Lesquereux) H. A. Crum
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Amblystegiella minutissima;Platydictya jungermannioides var. minutissima
|basionyms=Hypnum minutissimum
|family=Amblystegiaceae
|habitat=Moist, shaded rock (limestone, sandstone)
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=Que.;Ark.;Ind.;Mass.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bryologist
|publication year=1969
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Platydictya
|species=Platydictya minutissima
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