Sphagnum beothuk |
Sphagnum junghuhnianum |
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junghuhn's sphagnum |
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Habit | Plants small to moderate-sized; capitulum rounded and dense; dark brown with a purplish sheen. | Plants moderate-sized, soft, loosely tufted, slender, capitulum flat-topped to rounded; pale, dirty green, yellowish to brownish; without metallic lustre when dry. |
Stem(s) | brown, superficial cortical cells aporose.; stem leaves lingulate, 1.1–1.2 mm, apex slightly apiculate to mostly broad and erose to lacerate, border only slightly broadened at base; hyaline cells rhomboid and 0–1-septate. |
leaves triangular-lingulate, 1.2–1.6 mm, broadly apex acute to narrowly truncate and toothed, border narrow or indistinct at base (less than 0.25 the width); hyaline cells rhomboid, mostly 0–1-septate; convex surface with membrane pleats, concave surface with 1–3 rounded membrane gaps occupying most of cell. |
Branches | more or less 5-ranked. |
somewhat 5-ranked. |
Branch leaves | 0.95–1.3 mm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, concave, straight to slightly subsecund, apex involute; hyaline cells on convex surface with numerous surface with numerous round to elliptic pores along the commissures, grading from large pores at the base to a mixture of small and tiny (2 µm) at the apex, concave surface with a few large, round pores/cell in lower side regions. |
ovate-lanceolate, 1.3–2 mm, strongly concave, apex strongly involute; margins entire to somewhat toothed near apex, hyaline cells on convex surface with numerous ringed elliptic pores (6–10) along commissures, concave surface mostly aporose except near margins; Sexual condition dioicous or monoicous. |
Sexual condition | unknown. |
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Spores | 21–23 µm; minutely papillose. |
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Branch | fascicles with 2 spreading and 1 pendent branch. |
fascicles with 2 spreading and 1–2 pendent branches. |
Sphagnum beothuk |
Sphagnum junghuhnianum |
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Habitat | Forming dense hummocks in minerotrophic peatlands | Shady, seepy cliffs |
Elevation | moderate elevations | low elevations |
Distribution |
NF |
BC; e Asia |
Discussion | Sphagnum junghuhnianum in the flora area is known only from the Queen Charlotte Islands. Sporophytes of Sphagnum junghuhnianum were not seen. Three other large, brown species of sect. Acutifolia have stem leaves without fimbriate to lacerate apices, S. subnitens (forms without red color), S. subfulvum, and S. flavicomans. Sphagnum flavicomans has a more pointed stem leaf and a darker brown color as well as a strongly different ecology and range. Both S. subnitens and S. subfulvum have a glossy sheen when dry that is lacking in S. junghuhnianum. Sexual condition and spore characters were taken from H. A. Crum (1984). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 27, p. 90. | FNA vol. 27, p. 95. |
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Synonyms | S. junghuhnianum subsp. pseudomolle, S. pseudomolle | |
Name authority | R. E. Andrus: Sida 22: 966, figs. 21–26. (2006) | Dozy & Molkenboer: Verh. Kon. Akad. Wetensch., Afd. Natuurk. 2: 8. (1854) |
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