View source for Orthothecium strictum

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|accepted_name=Orthothecium strictum
|accepted_authority=Lorentz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Moosstudien,
|place=122, plate 5, fig. D. 1864
|year=1864
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Orthothecium binervulum
|authority=Molendo
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Hypnaceae;Orthothecium;Orthothecium strictum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Hypnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Orthothecium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Orthothecium strictum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 551, 555, 557
|treatment_page=page 556
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small, in tufts, orange. <b>Stems</b> 1–6 cm, 0.5 mm wide, erect to ascending, sparingly branched. <b>Leaves</b> erect-imbricate, straight, ovate-lanceolate, not to slightly plicate, 1 mm; margins partially recurved, serrulate distally; apex short, flexuose, subhyaline; costa double, short; basal laminal cells shorter than medial cells, brownish yellow; medial cells oblong-linear, 48–64 × 8 µm. <b>Specialized</b> asexual reproduction rare, by clusters of propagula in leaf axils, claviform, multicellular. <b>Sporophytes</b> unknown.</span><!--

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|habitat=Moist tundra, humus, soil, rock ledges, crevices
|elevation=low to high elevations (10-2800 m)
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.W.T.;N.S.;Nunavut;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Europe.
|discussion=<p><i>Orthothecium strictum</i> is distinguished by stems 0.5 mm wide and 1–6 cm long, and the indistinctly plicate, erect-imbricate, narrowly lanceolate leaves with revolute margins, ending in a short, flexuose, subhyaline acumination. The perichaetial leaves are ovate-lanceolate. A single collection (Alaska, Steere 18846, NY) had claviform multicellular propagula present in axils of leaves.</p>
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name=Orthothecium strictum
|authority=Lorentz
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Orthothecium binervulum
|basionyms=
|family=Hypnaceae
|habitat=Moist tundra, humus, soil, rock ledges, crevices
|elevation=low to high elevations (10-2800 m)
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.W.T.;N.S.;Nunavut;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Europe.
|reference=None
|publication title=Moosstudien,
|publication year=1864
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Orthothecium
|species=Orthothecium strictum
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