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|accepted_name=Homalothecium nevadense
|accepted_authority=(Lesquereux) Renauld & Cardot
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Gaz.
|place=13: 202. 1888
|year=1888
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Hypnum nevadense
|authority=Lesquereux
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brachytheciaceae;Homalothecium;Homalothecium nevadense
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brachytheciaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Homalothecium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Homalothecium nevadense]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 441, 442, 444, 446
|treatment_page=page 445
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>medium-sized, in dense tufts, light green when young, golden or brownish yellow with age. <b>Stems</b> to 10 cm, densely regularly pinnate, branches 5–7 mm, curved to almost circinate. <b>Stem</b> leaves erect-appressed, triangular-lanceolate, (1–)1.3–2(–2.5) × (0.2–)0.5–0.7(–0.8) mm; base short-rounded, narrowly decurrent; margins plane or often recurved at places, serrulate or subentire; apex acuminate or gradually tapered; costa to 70–95% leaf length, terminal spine present; alar cells ovate, 6–7 µm wide, walls thick, region of 5–10 × 6–10 cells, moderately distinctly delimited, opaque to moderately translucent; laminal cells linear-flexuose, 30–85 × 5–6 µm; basal cells irregularly long-ovate, region in 1–3 rows, indistinctly delimited from distal cells. <b>Branch</b> leaves appressed when dry, spreading when moist, lanceolate, 1–1.7(–2.1) × 0.2–0.4 mm; margins plane or recurved at places, serrulate or serrate proximally and in alar region, entire or minutely serrulate distally; apex narrowly acute to acuminate; costa to 75–95% leaf length, variable within one shoot, terminal spine present; alar cell shape irregular, 5–10 µm wide, walls strongly incrassate, region of 2–10 × 3–8 cells, distinctly delimited; laminal cells linear-flexuose, 25–65 × 4–6 µm; basal cells in 1 (or 2) rows; distal cells smooth. <b>Sexual</b> condition phyllodioicous or dioicous. <b>Seta</b> 0.7–1.5 cm, rough proximally, sometimes slightly so, smooth distally. <b>Capsule</b> erect, narrowly cylindric, straight to slightly curved, 2–2.5 mm; annulus separating by fragments; operculum long-conic to rostrate; peristome hygrocastique; exostome teeth with long transitional zone; endostome basal membrane short, segments as long as exostome teeth, very narrow, cilia absent or less than 1/4 segment length. <b>Spores</b> 9–16 µm.</span><!--

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|habitat=Calcareous rock, quartzite, granite, rotten logs, trunks, soil, forests, open areas
|elevation=low to high elevations (0-3100 m)
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p>Homalothecium nevadense has stem leaf costae that are stout to the end, as does H. aeneum; the branch leaves may be straight, homomallous, or falcate-secund; and the spores are smooth.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Homalothecium nevadense
|author=
|authority=(Lesquereux) Renauld & Cardot
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Hypnum nevadense
|family=Brachytheciaceae
|habitat=Calcareous rock, quartzite, granite, rotten logs, trunks, soil, forests, open areas
|elevation=low to high elevations (0-3100 m)
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Gaz.
|publication year=1888
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V28/V28_692.xml
|genus=Homalothecium
|species=Homalothecium nevadense
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