View source for Sphagnum pulchrum

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Sphagnum pulchrum
|accepted_authority=(Lindberg) Warnstorf
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Centralbl.
|place=82: 42. 1900,
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sphagnum intermedium var. pulchrum
|authority=Lindberg
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Sphagnaceae;Sphagnum;Sphagnum sect. Cuspidata;Sphagnum pulchrum
|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. Cuspidata]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sphagnum pulchrum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 63, 66, 72, 75, 84, 89, 93
|treatment_page=page 74
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>moderate-sized to robust, often quite dense and compact; green, brownish green, golden brown to dark brown; capitulum flat-topped and not especially 5-radiate. <b>Stems</b> green to dark brown; superficial cortex of 2 layers of enlarged, moderately differentiated cells. <b>Stem</b> leaves triangular to triangular-lingulate, 0.9–1.1 mm; appressed to spreading; apex apiculate, acute or narrowly obtuse, appressed to spreading; hyaline cells nonseptate and efibrillose. <b>Branches</b> straight to more typically curved, typically stout and blunt ended; strongly 5-ranked, leaves not much elongate at distal end. <b>Branch</b> fascicles with 2 spreading and 2 pendent branches. <b>Branch</b> stems green but often reddish at proximal end, with cortex enlarged with conspicuous retort cells. <b>Branch</b> leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.4–1.8 mm; straight to often subsecund; weakly undulate and slightly recurved; hyaline cells on convex surface with 1 pore per cell at apical end of cell, on concave surface with round wall thinnings in the cells ends and angles; chlorophyllous cells triangular to triangular-ovate in transverse section, very well-enclosed within concave surface. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous. <b>Spores</b> 25–28 µm; roughly papillous on both surfaces; proximal laesura more than 0.5 the length of the spore.</span><!--

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|habitat=Abundant in poor fens and raised bogs, forming dense carpets at water level, especially on floating mats
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Alaska;Conn.;Ind.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Wis.;W.Va.;Europe.
|discussion=<p>Sporophytes are uncommon in Sphagnum pulchrum. With its distinctive broad and strongly 5-ranked branch leaves, It is one of our most easily recognized species.</p>
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name=Sphagnum pulchrum
|author=
|authority=(Lindberg) Warnstorf
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Sphagnum intermedium var. pulchrum
|family=Sphagnaceae
|habitat=Abundant in poor fens and raised bogs, forming dense carpets at water level, especially on floating mats
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Alaska;Conn.;Ind.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Wis.;W.Va.;Europe.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Centralbl.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V27/V27_56.xml
|genus=Sphagnum
|section=Sphagnum sect. Cuspidata
|species=Sphagnum pulchrum
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