View source for Leskea obscura

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|accepted_name=Leskea obscura
|accepted_authority=Hedwig
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Musc. Frond.,
|place=223, plate 57, figs. 1 – 9. 1801
|year=1801
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Leskea cardotii
|authority=Kindberg
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=L. obtusa
|authority=Renauld
}}
|hierarchy=Leskeaceae;Leskea;Leskea obscura
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Leskeaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Leskea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Leskea obscura]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 350
|treatment_page=page 351
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>dark green or brownish. <b>Stems</b> with branches spreading, loosely foliate, not curved at apices. <b>Stem</b> and branch leaves similar. <b>Stem</b> leaves occasionally very slightly plicate, not much longer than broad, 0.9–1.2 mm; apex rounded-obtuse to sometimes acute or short-acuminate. <b>Branch</b> leaves remote, elliptic or broadly oblong-ovate, not plicate, 0.4–0.8 mm; margins erect, not revolute, slightly incurved when dry; apex rounded-obtuse; costa ending 8–10 cells before apex; distal laminal cells 6–9 µm, indistinctly bulging-papillose abaxially. <b>Seta</b> yellow to orange-brown, 0.5–1.2 cm. <b>Capsule</b> yellow-brown, oblong-cylindric, straight, 1.5–2.3 mm; annulus 2- or 3-seriate; operculum rounded-conic, blunt; exostome teeth yellow; endostome segments less than 1/3 exostome teeth length. <b>Spores</b> 11–18 µm, very finely papillose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature Mar–Nov.
|habitat=Base and lower trunks of hardwood trees, bald cypress, pine, logs, flood plains, rock
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (20-400 m)
|distribution=Alta.;Man.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.J.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p>Leskea obscura is more common in eastern North America. Leskea obscura is distinguished from L. gracilescens by its smooth, concave, blunt, rounded-obtuse leaves with erect margins, exostome teeth 0.2–0.3 mm, longer than endostome segments, and operculum that is distinctly blunt.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Leskea obscura
|author=
|authority=Hedwig
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Leskea cardotii;L. obtusa
|basionyms=
|family=Leskeaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature Mar–Nov.
|habitat=Base and lower trunks of hardwood trees, bald cypress, pine, logs, flood plains, rock
|elevation=low to moderate elevations (20-400 m)
|distribution=Alta.;Man.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.J.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Musc. Frond.,
|publication year=1801
|special status=Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V28/V28_546.xml
|genus=Leskea
|species=Leskea obscura
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