View source for Tortula cuneifolia var. blissii

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|accepted_name=Tortula cuneifolia var. blissii
|accepted_authority=R. H. Zander
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci.
|place=32: 223, plate 85, figs. 21–25. 1993,
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|hierarchy=Pottiaceae;Pottiaceae subfam. Pottioideae;Tortula;Tortula cuneifolia;Tortula cuneifolia var. blissii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pottiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Pottiaceae subfam. Pottioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tortula]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Tortula cuneifolia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>variety</small>[[Tortula cuneifolia var. blissii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 592
|treatment_page=page 591
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Leaves </b>short- to long-ovate, apex broadly acute, apiculate, margins plane, weakly bordered throughout or near apex with 2–4 rows of smaller, thicker-walled cells, occasionally short-rectangular; costa ending in an apiculus, lacking an adaxial pad of cells, distally narrow, (2–)4 cells across adaxial surface; distal laminal cells inflated hexagonal to short-rectangular, width 15–20 µm, 1(–2):1, smooth. <b>Sexual</b> condition paroicous or autoicous. <b>Sporophytes</b> exerted. <b>Seta</b> length 0.4–0.5 cm. <b>Capsule</b> stegocarpic, not systylius, cylindric, erect and nearly straight, urn 1.3–1.5 mm; peristome ca. 800 µm, teeth of 32 filaments twisted about 1/2 turn, basal membrane ca. 100 µm; operculum ca. 1.1 mm. <b>Spores</b> 12–15 µm, spheric, finely papillose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsule maturity date unknown (the typical variety has capsules mature in spring).
|habitat=Apparently on soil
|elevation=low elevations (0 m)
|distribution=Nunavut.
|discussion=<p>Variety blissii is known only from the type collection, Nunavut, Cornwallis Island, Resolute Bay area. It differs from the typical variety by blackish gametophyte, short-elliptic (not broadly obovate) leaves that are apiculate (never grading to short-awned), costa slightly wider, seta shorter and thicker, operculum larger. The leaves of var. blissii are identical to those of muticous-leaved forms of the typical variety, but show a very strong color reaction to KOH: bright yellow upper lamina and deep brick-red basal cells, colors which are pale in European specimens. The short, thick seta is apparently unique to this arctic variety; European specimens have setae 0.7–1.5 mm in length and ca. 0.15 mm in width. As in European specimens, the capsule is variably macro- and microstomous, and the operculum is broadly to narrowly conic. The type specimen was incorrectly reported (D. H. Vitt and R. H. Zander 1978) as representing a second known station for Tortula deciduidentata (as Crumia deciduidentata), which has a similar short, thick seta and smooth, weakly bordered leaves that are bright yellow in KOH except for brick-red basal cells, but which differs in the operculum pushed off by the elongating columella; capsule and spores larger; and leaves revolute proximally, with much-enlarged basal cells and costa narrower, sometimes excurrent and sharply truncate.</p>
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name=Tortula cuneifolia var. blissii
|author=
|authority=R. H. Zander
|rank=variety
|parent rank=species
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|family=Pottiaceae
|phenology=Capsule maturity date unknown (the typical variety has capsules mature in spring).
|habitat=Apparently on soil
|elevation=low elevations (0 m)
|distribution=Nunavut.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Pottiaceae subfam. Pottioideae
|genus=Tortula
|species=Tortula cuneifolia
|variety=Tortula cuneifolia var. blissii
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