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|accepted_name=Sphagnum sitchense
|accepted_authority=R. E. Andrus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sida
|place=22: 969, figs. 27–34. 2006,
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Sphagnaceae;Sphagnum;Sphagnum sect. Acutifolia;Sphagnum sitchense
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Sphagnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sphagnum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Sphagnum sect. Acutifolia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sphagnum sitchense]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 87
|treatment_page=page 98
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>moderate-sized; capitulum flat-topped and dense; pale yellow and pink, lacking sheen. <b>Stem</b> pink, superficial cortical cells aporose. <b>Stem</b> leaves narrowly triangular to lingulate- triangular, 1.2–1.6 × 0.6–0.8 mm, length: width ratio ca. 2:1, apex apiculate, border strong and moderately broadened basally; hyaline cells narrowly rhomboid and 1 to occasionally 2 septate, often fibrillose apically. <b>Branches</b> not 5-ranked. <b>Branch</b> fascicles with 2 spreading and 1 pendent branch. <b>Branch</b> leaves 1.3–1.5 × 0.5–0.55 mm, ovate-lanceolate, concave, straight, apex involute; hyaline cells on convex surface with numerous round to elliptic pores along the commissures, grading from large elliptical pores at the base to moderate-sized round pores at the apex, concave surface with a few large round pores scattered throughout. <b>Sexual</b> condition unknown.</span><!--

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|habitat=Known only from type locality where it was forming low dense hummocks in alpine tundra
|elevation=moderate elevations
|distribution=Alaska.
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|author=
|authority=R. E. Andrus
|rank=species
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|basionyms=
|family=Sphagnaceae
|habitat=Known only from type locality where it was forming low dense hummocks in alpine tundra
|elevation=moderate elevations
|distribution=Alaska.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sida
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|special status=
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|genus=Sphagnum
|section=Sphagnum sect. Acutifolia
|species=Sphagnum sitchense
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