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|accepted_name=Weissia ludoviciana
|accepted_authority=(Sullivant) W. D. Reese & B. A. E. Lemmon
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bryologist
|place=68: 282. 1965,
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Phascum ludovicianum
|authority=Sullivant
|rank=species
|publication_title=in A. Gray, Manual ed.
|publication_place=2, 616. 1856
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Astomum ludovicianum
|authority=(Sullivant) Sullivant
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Pottiaceae;Pottiaceae subfam. Trichostomoideae;Weissia;Weissia ludoviciana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pottiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Pottiaceae subfam. Trichostomoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Weissia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Weissia ludoviciana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 513, 517
|treatment_page=page 516
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Leaves </b>long-lanceolate, base long-elliptic or narrowly ovate, shoulders absent, distal laminal margins plane or erect, apex broadly channeled, acute, mucro very strong, of 7–10(–14) cells; costal adaxial stereid band smaller than the abaxial; distal laminal cells 8–10(–12) µm wide. <b>Sexual</b> condition rhizautoicous. <b>Seta</b> short, 0.08–0.015 cm not including the vaginula. <b>Capsule</b> cleistocarpic, ovoid with a short-rostrate apiculus.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature fall–spring.
|habitat=Moist soil, fields, among grasses, roadside banks
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p>The gametophyte of <i>Weissia ludoviciana</i> is quite like that of <i>W. brachycarpa</i>. If it has a hybrid origin, then the archegoniate parent is the latter species. <i>Weissia ludoviciana</i>, W. muehlenbergiana, and <i>W. phascopsis</i> are similar in the short-seta, cleistocarpic capsules and long-lanceolate leaves, but differ most constantly in the traits given in the key. Additional differences observed, which may prove inconstant on revision, are: <i>W. ludoviciana</i> is rhizautoicous, with antheridia in extremely small, serrate-leaved buds, on soil near base of the archegoniophore, the capsule has stomates and a weakly differentiated annulus of 3–4 rows of smaller cells, and the calyptra is ca. 1 mm; W. muehlenbergiana is cladautoicous, the capsule lacks stomates and an annulus is not distinguishable, and the calyptra is 0.5–0.6 mm; <i>W. phascopsis</i> is cladautoicous, the capsule has stomates and the annulus somewhat differentiated as a ridge, and the calyptra is 1.2–1.4 mm. The hybrid <i>Weissia ludoviciana</i> × <i>W. controversa</i> was reported by W. D. Reese and B. E. Lemmon (1965).</p>
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name=Weissia ludoviciana
|authority=(Sullivant) W. D. Reese & B. A. E. Lemmon
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Astomum ludovicianum
|basionyms=Phascum ludovicianum
|family=Pottiaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature fall–spring.
|habitat=Moist soil, fields, among grasses, roadside banks
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bryologist
|publication year=
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|subfamily=Pottiaceae subfam. Trichostomoideae
|genus=Weissia
|species=Weissia ludoviciana
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