Sphagnum fimbriatum |
Sphagnum splendens |
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fringe bogmoss, fringe peat-moss, sphagnum |
sphagnum |
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Habit | Plants typically small and slender, larger and compact in the Arctic, capitulum small to moderate-sized, often with a conspicuous terminal bud; green, yellowish brown to brown; without metallic lustre when dry. | Plants moderate-sized, pale brown and shiny, capitulum well defined. | ||||
Stem(s) | leaves spatulate to broad-spatulate, 0.8–1.5(–2) mm, strongly lacerate across the broad apex and often part way down the margins, border scarcely to strongly broadened at base (0.25 width of base or less); hyaline cells rhomboid, efibrillose and often 1–2-septate. |
leaves triangular, 0.7–0.9 mm, appressed to stem; apex apiculate; hyaline cells efibrillose and nonseptate. |
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Branches | not 5-ranked, quite terete, long, and slender Branch fascicles with 1– 2 spreading and 1–2 pendent branches. |
moderately tapering, leaves only moderately larger at branch tips. |
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Branch leaves | ovate to ovate-lanceolate; 1.1–1.5(–2) mm, slightly concave, straight; apex involute; margins entire; hyaline cells on convex surface with numerous pores along the commissures grading from small pores near leaf apex to large pores at base, concave surface with large round pores at leaf apex and along margins. |
ovate-lanceolate, 1–1.4 mm; straight; stiff, not undulate and slightly recurved; margins entire; hyaline cells efibrillose, convex surface with 1 pore per cell at cell apex, on concave surface with round wall thinnings in the cell ends and angles; chlorophyllous cells triangular in transverse section and well enclosed to just reaching concave surface. |
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Sexual condition | often monoicous. |
unknown. |
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Spores | 20–27 µm, finely papillose on both surfaces; proximal laesura less than 0.5 spore radius. |
unknown. |
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Branch | fascicles with 2 spreading and 2 pendent branches.; branch stems green; cortex enlarged with conspicuous retort cells. |
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Sphagnum fimbriatum |
Sphagnum splendens |
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Habitat | Moderate elevations | |||||
Distribution |
North America; South America; Eurasia; Pacific Islands (New Zealand)
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QC; Known only from the type locality |
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Sporophytes of Sphagnum splendens are unknown. The lack of any fibrils in the branch leaf hyaline cells gives it an unusually glossy appearance that should make it readily identifiable in the field. The facts that it differs from S. fallax in only one character and that it is known only from the type locality make S. splendens questionably distinct to some observers. More investigation is needed. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 27, p. 92. | FNA vol. 27, p. 76. | ||||
Parent taxa | Sphagnaceae > Sphagnum > sect. Acutifolia | Sphagnaceae > Sphagnum > sect. Cuspidata | ||||
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Name authority | Wilson & Hooker: in J. D. Hooker, Fl. Antarct., 398. (1847) | Maass: Bryologist 70: 193, figs. 1–4. (1967) | ||||
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