View source for Scleropodium occidentale

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|accepted_name=Scleropodium occidentale
|accepted_authority=B. E. Carter
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bryologist
|place=115: 224, fig. 1. 2012
|year=2012
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
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|hierarchy=Brachytheciaceae;Scleropodium;Scleropodium occidentale
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brachytheciaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Scleropodium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Scleropodium occidentale]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 464
|treatment_page=page 467
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>medium-sized to large, in moderately loose mats, green to golden green. <b>Stems</b> to 5 cm, leafy shoots 0.8–1.2 mm wide, branches julaceous. <b>Stem</b> leaves closely imbricate, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1–2 × 0.5–1.2 mm; margins often widely incurved distally, entire or with serrulations restricted to acumen; apex acute to rounded or cuspidate, occasionally acuminate; alar cells quadrate to short-rectangular, 9–12 × 10–13 µm, walls moderately thick, region small, indistinctly delimited; laminal cells 45–60 × 4–7 µm; basal juxtacostal cells elongate, 10–20 × 5–7 µm. <b>Seta</b> 0.9–1.6 cm, roughened throughout. <b>Capsule</b> inclined. <b>Spores</b> 15–19 µm.</span><!--

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|habitat=Sub aqua tic habitats
|elevation=low to high elevations (0-2000 m)
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.;Wash.
|discussion=<p><i>Scleropodium occidentale</i> is morphologically and ecologically similar to <i>S. obtusifolium</i>; however, it differs in having a longer, more robust costa that ends in a spine, and in DNA markers. It also often has acute leaf apices unlike the rounded apex typical of <i>S. obtusifolium</i>. The branches are tumid and often arching.</p>
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name=Scleropodium occidentale
|authority=B. E. Carter
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brachytheciaceae
|habitat=Sub aqua tic habitats
|elevation=low to high elevations (0-2000 m)
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bryologist
|publication year=2012
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Scleropodium
|species=Scleropodium occidentale
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