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|accepted_name=Aulacomnium turgidum
|accepted_authority=(Wahlenberg) Schwagrichen
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Musc. Frond. Suppl.
|place=3(1,1,Aulacomnion): 7. 1827
|year=1827
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Mnium turgidum
|authority=Wahlenberg
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Aulacomniaceae;Aulacomnium;Aulacomnium turgidum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Aulacomniaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Aulacomnium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Aulacomnium turgidum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 92
|treatment_page=page 94
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>3–8 cm, in dense erect cushions or prostrate mats, green, yellow-green, or fuscous green. <b>Stems</b> yellow; cross section pentagonal, cortical cells in 2–5 irregular layers, medulla cell walls thick to thin, central strand present; rhizoids usually covered by leaves except in older parts of plants. <b>Leaves</b> imbricate, not twisted when dry or moist, oblong to elliptic, widest above base, concave; base not rounded or narrowed to insertion; margins revolute 1–2 times to just before apex, entire; apex rounded-cucullate; costa flexuose toward apex; laminal cells round to oblong, papillae low; basal cells usually 2-stratose, often brown. <b>Specialized</b> asexual reproduction absent. <b>Perigonia</b> as terminal discoid splash platforms; paraphyses of 6–9 cells. <b>Perichaetia</b> with paraphyses absent. <b>Seta</b> 0.2–0.3 cm. <b>Capsule</b> horizontal, 3–5 mm; operculum conic, rostrum short, blunt; endostome cilia nodose. <b>Spores</b> 8–13 µm, smooth.</span><!--

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|habitat=Arctic and alpine tundra meadows, heaths, fellfields, mineral soil, rock, near tree line under spruce, cirque headwalls, deep shaded canyons
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Maine;N.H.;N.Y.;n Europe;Asia;Africa.
|discussion=<p>Aulacomnium turgidum often grows in pure mats or cushions and is distinctive in having broad cucullate leaf apices and closely imbricate leaves (hiding the rhizoids); the stems are julaceous and irregularly branched, the branching often associated with gametangial formation. Fossils of A. turgidum have been found at high elevations well south of its present range in eastern North America in sediments recording episodes of late Pleistocene tundra vegetation (N. G. Miller 1980). The alar regions on leaves of A. turgidum are sometimes excavate. The basal laminal cells of the inner perigonial leaves are irregular and smooth with walls evenly thickened. The outer perichaetial leaves are oblong; the inner leaves have serrulate margins at the apex and oblong to rhomboidal laminal cells with evenly thickened walls.</p>
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name=Aulacomnium turgidum
|author=
|authority=(Wahlenberg) Schwagrichen
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Mnium turgidum
|family=Aulacomniaceae
|habitat=Arctic and alpine tundra meadows, heaths, fellfields, mineral soil, rock, near tree line under spruce, cirque headwalls, deep shaded canyons
|elevation=low to moderate elevations
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Maine;N.H.;N.Y.;n Europe;Asia;Africa.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Musc. Frond. Suppl.
|publication year=1827
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Aulacomnium
|species=Aulacomnium turgidum
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