Sphagnum quinquefarium |
Sphagnum beothuk |
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five-rank peat-moss, sphagnum |
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Habit | Plants moderate-sized, typically stiff and compact, capitulum usually hemispherical; green, grayish white, pale yellow, purplish red, may have a slight metallic luster when dry. | Plants small to moderate-sized; capitulum rounded and dense; dark brown with a purplish sheen. |
Stem(s) | leaves triangular to triangular-lingulate, 1–1.3 mm, apex acute to slightly obtuse, border broad at base (more than 0.25 width); hyaline cells narrowly rhomboid, mostly 0–1-septate and mostly efibrillose. |
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. |
Branches | usually strongly 5-ranked. |
more or less 5-ranked. |
Branch leaves | ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.1–1.5 mm, concave, straight, apex slightly involute; hyaline cells on convex surface with numerous oval to elliptic pores along commissures grading from small pores near apex to large round pores at base, concave surface with large round pores in proximal portions of leaf. |
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. |
Sexual condition | monoicous or dioicous. |
unknown. |
Spores | 19–27 µm, finely papillose on proximal surface, pusticulate on distal surface; proximal laesura less than 0.4 spore radius. |
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Branch | fascicles with mostly 3 spreading and 1–2 pendent branches. |
fascicles with 2 spreading and 1 pendent branch. |
Sphagnum quinquefarium |
Sphagnum beothuk |
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Phenology | Capsules mature mid summer. | |
Habitat | Weakly minerotrophic and hygrophytic, wet mineral bedrock, damp coniferous humus along coast and in montane regions | Forming dense hummocks in minerotrophic peatlands |
Elevation | low to high elevations | moderate elevations |
Distribution |
AK; CT; GA; MA; MD; ME; MN; NC; NH; NY; PA; TN; VA; VT; WV; BC; MB; NB; NF; NS; ON; QC; Eurasia |
NF |
Discussion | Sporophytes are common in Sphagnum quinquefarium. This species is usually associated with S. capillifolium, S. girgensohnii, and S. russowii. No other species of sect. Acutifolia has the combination of quinquefarious branch leaves and three spreading branches per fascicle. Sphagnum rubiginosum has three spreading branches but the branch leaves are quite unranked and its lingulate stem leaf is quite distinct from the triangular stem leaf of S. quinquefarium. See also discussion under 86. S. talbotianum. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 27, p. 96. | FNA vol. 27, p. 90. |
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Synonyms | S. acutifolium var. quinquefarium, S. schofieldii | |
Name authority | (Lindberg) Warnstorf: Hedwigia 25: 222. (1886) | R. E. Andrus: Sida 22: 966, figs. 21–26. (2006) |
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